rude bits

I thought penis was spelled "penus" like the planet Venus. I figured out the brutal truth in 7th grade health :/ .

Isaac

For some reason my parents used the word “teeny” for boobs. I never heard anyone else use that word, so even though l knew what it referred to; l was convinced it was a bad word. So, l saw a movie where a girl was nicknamed Teeny and l thought it was terrible they named her that

Anon

I thought that masturbating was another word for pooping so whenever I’d hear the word ‘masturbate’ I imagined someone taking a dump

Anon

Church wasn't mandatory in my family, so I rarely went. I had a bible and thought "Titus" was pronounced "tit-us. I was trying to talk about Titus and my mother said, "You better not be saying tits!" I was ten and didn't know what a tit was. Now eleven years later I laugh at this!

Molly

When I discovered a pearlescent green camo… adult plaything, I thought it was some kind of clown’s tool or a massager. I knew not to use it, though, and put it away.

Miru

I watched Family Guy as a tween and there is an episode where Chris is on a diet and has to eat vegetables. Chris complains, and Stewie tells him he should try it because it's "orgasmic". Stewie takes a bite and says, "Oh yes! YES!" I figured "orgasmic" was a funny way of saying "organic".

Molly

When I was little I asked my mother if her bra was a flotation device for swimming (like life jackets). My Grandma was over at the time and she thought it was hilarious!

Molly

I used to think that both sexes had penises, which were only used to urinate. So I once made my Amy Rose doll have a “wee-wee”, ss in her tail folded over to serve as a “wee-wee”, which I assumed was the proper term. I also assumed the balls had no function, before later absorbing Internet memes and assuming the balls had an excretory function. I also managed to jerk off via sheer luck.

Anon

For years, I thought that the "balls" on a penis were on the tip. I believed this well into my teenage years.

Anon

I used to think the scrotum was the pee hole on a boy and I thought it looked like a big vagina. But then when I saw the anatomy I looked at it in disbelief.

Lunarmoon

For the longest time the only penises I had ever seen were my brothers' when their diapers got changed or they took baths. And I didn't have any confusion about it because my brothers had always been in my life, with one being my twin. I figured they all looked just like that if they were boy's parts. Years later, finding out about circumcision, I was totally disgusted. I yelled at my mom saying "How could you cut it off! That's not fair! You wouldn't cut anything off of me!" I cried for like an hour over the whole thing. To me it was just as wrong as cutting someone's finger off. To this day I still think it's sort of cruel.

Young autonomy advocate

My grandmother thought nuns were a separate gender. After all, nobody else wore nuns' habits.

Sister Anastasia isn't female?

I'm female, and once upon a time I thought a penis was the size of a finger, flimsy and skinny.

I became terrified of them when I realized they were much bigger than that...

Anon

my 4 year old brother once saw my 5 year old sister peeing and, since he didn't know that girls did not have a penis, asked his mom "why is she peeing from her butt?"

Anon

I used to think you could lose your boobs if you ate too much beef, so I became a vegetarian.

Dusky