rude bits

This happened when I was about 4 years old... My brother, who was about 1 yr. at the time was getting a bath from my mom. I accidently walked in on them because it was almost time for my bath. I then saw my brothers parts, and I saw they were different than mine. I thought there was something wrong with me because I didn't have a penis. And I actually thought if I started doing boy things, then I would "grow" one. Then my mom explained that I'm a girl and my brother's a boy, and that boys and girls have different parts. So, I learned about the difference between a male and a female at a really young age.

anonymous

I belived that I was abnormal that i used to get errections......... and it haunted me for ages....... till I came to know what puberty meant

Anon

When my sister went through puberty, she came out of it with... shall we say, quite generous proportioning. Being only twelve years old at the time, I came under the impression that when I was sixteen, my breasts would be as large as hers... sadly, they never came close.

Less Inclined to Black Eyes

This wasn't actually my belief; it was, in fact, my little brother. It happened one embarrassing afternoon when, clearly enthralled by his contortionist capabilities, he asked me: "Can you twist your weewee?"

I don't believe I have ever been more mortified, but I managed to explain to him that girls - and consequentially, I - did not come equipped with these. He didn't believe me, and had to go ask our mother to be sure. Boy, what a shocker that must have been for the li'l guy!

Glad There's Only One of Him

When I was little I swear one of my older sisters (I'm the youngest of 4 girls) told me that if I always wore my bra (like to bed) that my breast wouldn't grow. Well I was a tomboy and I would wear sports bras all the time, until they fell apart. Needless to say my breast did grow and I am now a size 36B.

Star

When i was young I was once playing video games with my friend and
He said "watch out! The alien's gonna suck you up with his testicles!"

Ollie

Unitl I was about ten I had no idea that a guy's *thing* had to be hard in order to have sex.

Lola

When I was younger, I used to call "nipples", "cripples". No lie. Total embarassment when my mother brings it up in front of my boyfriend...

Anon

when i was younger, my uncle told me that hair will grow on my fingers and hands if I masturbate.. well I didn't know what masturbating was back then, but when I found out what it was I was scared because, I got scared that the hair will cover my whole hand, it made me stop masturbating for a WHOLE month..

John

When I was little I thought I had two bums because my mom referred to my vagina as my "front bum" and my actual bum to my "back bum."
Also, I thought that guys wore panties just like girls-I never heard of boxer shorts until grade 2 or 3 when my friends laughed at me for referring to a boy's underwear as his "panties" (they had little brothers which is probably why they knew the difference.)

clueless

When I was little, don't remember exactly the age but it went on for quite a while, I used to believe that the more frequently you had sex, the bigger your breasts or penis would become. So somebody with big breasts or a big penis obviously had sex every day, and someone with smaller breasts or a smaller penis didn't have sex very often. I'm not really sure when I stopped believing this.

Raym

I used to think that men had pubic hair only after they had sex (don't ask why).
so one day when I was changing with a friend in a changing room to go swimming I saw he had a bit hair "down there". I was really shocked and asked him about it (he had a girlfriend). He, being a joker, told me with a straight face that he meant to tell me and yes, it was true, but not to tell anyone. I believed him! This held up for one uncomfortable week until he couldn't bear it any longer and told me the truth. I was so embarassed! (I was 12!)

Anon

My mom always called a vagina a "wee wee" (or something of that nature). So, my younger sister had a friend over who had a much older sister, and they were talking about sex. They didnt know much (They were like 7!) but I heard the word 'vagina" coming out of the room they were in, and my sister ashed her friend what that meant, and she said a girls peepee. I thought she said Buhchina (like the country), so i was convinced thats what the medical term was. Later, I said to my mom "Mommy, why is China named after a bad thing?" She was confused, so I told her that a girl's vagina was called a Buhchina. She laughed and laughed. Then, she told me the story. What was more embarassing was the fact I was about 10.

China isn't bad!

Honestly, until I was 14 years old I didn't realize this. For band camp, my instrument section has a hisotry of dropping their pants in front of the band at the end of the day on any one day. And so I, being the only girl, bought boxers for the occasion. The boys told me that tonight was the night so I went to my cabin to put on the boxers. As I put them on, I noticed a sort of hole/flap right at the crotch area and I thought, 'Oh no! My boxers are ripped!'

And then it occured to me what that was REALLY for. My friends never let me live it down.

Rose