rude bits

Until I was about 6 years old, I believed that womens breasts were filled with milk and that when they had a child their breasts would 'deflate' after breast feeding them for 6 months. I was convinced that they had to wait until their breasts 'refilled' before they could have another child ... :s

Loopy

When I was 10, I wanted big boobs, so I used to do these exercises, where I was basically flexing my arms and chanting "I must I must I must increase my bust". I think I read that in a Judy Blume book, and thought it worked.

Anon

I used to believe that an erection was a curse that had somehow come upon me and that when I was gonna have sex (not quite knowing the mechanics of it at the time)I'd have to run to the bathroom and wait for it to go away before she'd notice and I'd be embarrased. Sad yet true....

Anon

When I was 7 or 8, my next-door neighbor (who was 12 at the time, I believe) told me that when a woman loses her virginity, a bone breaks in her clit and it's extremely painful. For a while, I wondered why anyone would want to have sex if it was that painful!

Confused Kid

When I was a kid, I remember seeing paperback romance novels and noting that when men were strong they had large breasts just like the women.

qthrul

When i was younger (7 or 8) i went to the cinema with my mum. we were in the bathroom and as the door had no lock on it she asked me to hold it shut for her. i accidentally let go of the door as my mum was inserting a tampon. i thought this was a condom and the next day told everyone that i had seen my mum having sex with herself in the toilet

Jackie

When I was about four, my cousin and I got caught playing "Doctor" so my mother told me that girls had teeth "down there" and if you stuck your finger or penis "down there" it would get bitten off. Well that was my mother's form of contraception. It wasn't until I was 14 when a girl seduced me and I was afraid because I didn't want to get my penis bitten off, so she showed me that girls did not have teeth "down there". My first reaction was; no wonder look at the shape her gums are in.

Ridgetopboy

Like many men I started getting erections while I was still young. As a child, this scared and confused me and, for some reason, I used to believe that if you poured water on it, it would shrink back down. I don't know how I came up with this.

Bruno

I thought calling someone a prick simply meant they were a jerk. So I was out to dinner with my mom, very conservative aunt, and 2 cousins (one younger), I was complaining about movie critics and very, very loudly exclaimed "they're SUCH PRICKS." The family just stared at me shocked...my momsaid, "what?!?!" I said it even louder wen my older male cousin told me what it really meant and I was incredibly embarrassed and apologized. I got a double whammy for embarrassment when I actually called the guy I liked and told him the story randomly and he was entirely not interested...it was mortifying. Especially because I was 15 and didn't know what a prick was!

Anon

I used to not be sure how many balls a man is supposed to have. Like, i didnt know that men normally all have the same amount or what that amount was. Which to me justified a bizarre, irrational fear I had that I might have been supposed to have 3, but that one "popped" some how. When I finally asked my mom if she knew the answers to if these were realistic concerns, I honestly thought that she may simply not know the answers to them because she wasnt a man. Was very relieved however when she awkwardly cleared up those concerns.

FreudianNipSlip

I remember the day my dad told my brother to refer to his penis as a "pecker." When I asked him what to call mine, he said something but my mother quickly sushed him. For many years, I was bitter because my brother had something to call his private parts, but I didn't.

Kendra

When I was about 11 I decided that I didn't want to get a girl pregnent. So I told everyone I was getting a visectomy. At that time I thought that meant that you got your testicles removed.

David M.

I used to believe that if you made a penis out of clay and put it on your crotch it would stick and you would become a boy. I asked for clay for christmas and tried to make one. I of course was disappointed when it didn't work. I thought maybe it was because I hadn'y made it right so I kept making one over and over again. Well, it did look a little more like a worm than anything else anyway.

Zoe

My Little sister used to believe that everyone had unique shaped genetalier

Anon

I used to believe that only men had pubic hair. I think I got his crazy idea as a kid by seeing pornographic magazines where all the woman had shaved and the men were natural

the hairless wonder

i used to believe that a penis was the same as a vagina except really long

*stupid*

i once thought that i pissed my balls out, because there were these round things in the toilet. i think my older brother encouraged me to believe this.

dave

i used to belive that my willy would eat me at night

Anon

This isn't me, but a friend of mine when she was little heard her mom call her female anatomy her vagina, well she thought it was called a "from China" as an inside joke we now call it our "from China's"

Anon

When I was ten, my left boob started getting really sore and I could feel a lump in there. For weeks I was so sure I had cancer. When I finally broke the news to my mother, she started cracking up and told me I was just "budding." Whew!

Madeleine