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When I was about 9 I knew that a man's penis had to go into a woman's vagina, however I couldn't work out how it could get in there if it was all floppy!

Emma

When I was little, my father always used the word "gadget" to describe a penis. Imagine my surprise the first time I heard a grownup refer to some tool as being a "handy little gadget"!

Bob

When I was very young, I used to believe that my clit would grow into a penis...I was positive it was the beginning of one, and thought all girls turned into boys.

Emma

When I was about 11 and still flat as a pancake, I used to discipline myself to sleep on my back just in case the pressure of sleeping on my stomach slowed the breast-growth process in any manner. Now I dress to make them look smaller--aargh!!

Anon

I used to believe that only men had hair anywhere on their body (besides their head). I still remember my confusion the first time I saw a picture of a naked lady in a girlie magazine when I was eight or nine. I thought her bush looked like something a man should have!

Anon

This is about my mother's belief when she was young. Her mother had a breast removed due to cancer, and therefore owned a bean-bag breast, and it used to get thrown about with the common phrase "who's got my boussom?!" She thought that all mothers only had one real breast!

Anon

when i 6, me and my friend decided pull down our pants & underwear and show our penises. he went first and whe he showed it i said how come you gots a macaroni over your penis? he said that was his penis and i said no and slapped him. i later learned that he just wasn't circumsiced yet.

k

I used to think that after the parents had the maximum amount of kids, the father's p*nis would eventually fall off and the mother's v*gina would close up, and they wouldn't be able to make any more kids.

Anon

I didn't see a female's 'parts' until I was sixteeen, though intensely curious. I knew they were 'different' and my 5-year-old logic suggested they the difference was that fmeales had two penises. I remember a journey on a tram to visit the dentist when I seriously thought this way possible and 'underessed' my fellow passenegers. Represssed or what?
PS: Now have two daighters, each blessed with one penis

Richard GL56 UK

My niece believed that the longer I breastfed my baby the smaller my boobs would get. She was 4 at the time.

M

Up until I was 13 or so, I thought that guy's testicles were each individually packaged (kind of like american cheese) -- ie, they each had their own scrotum. You have to understand, that pretty much everytime I saw them (greek statues, sex ed pamphlets), the penis was in front of them so there was no way to tell. That, and also, why would you call it "balls" if there was really only one hanging item.

Aw, Nuts

I used to believe that the scrotum were the place the urine was collected so when I was really in the need for a piss, I used to massage it to make it go away.

It wasn't until I was about 9-10 when I realized that the amount of urine i peed was too much to fit inside the scrotum and that I had to rethink it all.

Anon

When I was young and took baths with my sisters, they would grab my "gadget" as my Mother told them to call it and ask over & over why they didn't have one.

Mike, Long Beach, California

Until I was in college, I never understood exactly where a woman's urine came out. I thought the vagina was only for having sex. My working theory was that female pee came out of the same opening as her poo, but I always wondered where they came out together, or seperate times, or if it just varied.

Sadly, it took close examination of a college biology text for me to see the light. That's the sort of thing that happens when you only have brothers.

Much better informed now

I used to believe that womens genitalia was an inverted males 1

St3,

When I and my classmates were little we used to believe the vagina area on girls was called the China area. Thus, no one ever did a report on China or ate chinese.

My cousin and friend told me that a woman gets pregnant by eating pistacio pudding. Boy was I scared! I just ate pistacio pudding the day before!

Anon

i used thnk that girls and guys were alike.....and i never understood why i had 2 keep my top on in the pool and my brother didn't! i was like 7 at the time!

Lauren

when i was little i didn't know guys had balls i thought they just had a penis so once i saw a dude naked i thought he had 3 penises

Anon

When I was younger, I didn't know there's such a thing as testicles - I thought males only have penises and nothing else.

Now the first shock: I'm a boy.

Then the second shock: I'M TELLING TRUTH!

Silly

I used to believe that I had two holes down there....the pee and poop hole...I didn't find out until I was 12 that there was another...now im 15!

Chelsea Ann