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I used to think that there was a hole in a womans private area for each use: one for pee, one for poo, one for sex, one for your period, and one for the baby to come out.

Angela

I used to think the head of my penis was my circumcision scar. I thought it looked that way because they took something like a meat cleaver and chopped off the tip, and all the flesh inside popped out like that and formed a mushroom like scar. I was glad since it was so sensitive, but got mad when I found out that uncut guys have one, too. It just only comes out when it's time to play.

Brian

In fifth grade, teh "bad" kids decided one day to tell me what horny meant.... I thought (and always had up till then) that it was just a reference to unicorns and other animals with horns.
Now I crack jokes at one of my friends because she doesn't know what some words, that have to do with sex, mean.(and she's 15 almost 16)

glad it's no longer me

When i was little my mother called vagina monkeys. So imagine my surprize when my uncle was tickling me and said he wouldnt let me go until i called him a monkeys uncle!!! I was about 7 years old,

Ashley

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

I used to believe that "bitch" meant vagina, because I saw some nasty graffiti on a Kotex machine that said "For the bloody bitch!"

Aussie

While taking Sex Education class, my teacher would always refer to people's private parts as the "groin area". I misunderstood him and thought that he was saying "growing area". It some wierd way, it made sense to me to call a man's private parts the "growing area", but I was really confused why a woman's private parts should be called that too!

Peter

I didn't used to know that there was a difference between the penis and the balls. I thought it was all balls. 

Neil 

Until i was in 5th grade i think, i didn't know that penises became erect. So it didn't make sense to me how the floppy penis got into the girls vagina. And even when I did learn it, I thought they just got hard and pointed straight down. Therefore, it warped my idea of how sex occurred. It's hard to explain how I thought sex happened, but I suppose you could imagine it. Plus, even after I learned what penises were like and what they did, I was still surprised when i saw an erect one! They're so funny looking!

Anon

I used to think that when you had sex you would grow a dick (bearing in mind that everyone in my family was female)and men had dicks cos they'd had sex.

Ellie Clarke

when i was younger i used to believe that the small thing on the front of a womans body was a small penis and so i called it a 'dinky'. My brothers used to get me to say it to all their friends and im now going out with ine of them! i'll never live it down

Anon

when i was about 4 or 5, i used to think my penis a little plant growing on me, and i was afraid it would get bigger and bigger until it fell off.

Anon

when my mother was breastfeeding my sister, i thought that boobies were milk cartons

Hannah Sharatmdarik

I use to believe that a boys willies only got erect when they want sex.

Nancy

when i was small, after i realised what women had down below and kinda knew what it looked like, i still didnt really know what it was for! i thought it was a crack that their pee would leak from and that they had to use pads to soak it up. i also thought the pads stuck onto the vagina instead of onto the underwear!

a silly little boy!

Whenever i went to a health club when i was little i thought that other men's penis would shot me with a laser and that would make me die.

Anon

I used to think that girls didn't have a word for their private parts, because I had always heard the word "penis" (I have a little brother) but my mom always referred to my sister's and mine as simply "private parts." Then I thought they were called "chinas" because we picked that up somewhere (obviously mishearing it). Good case in point to be upfront with your kids.

Kristin

I used to believe that during an erection, a man's penis remained pointed downward. I couldn't imagine how a couple could possibly have sex in any position other than the obvious! Then my 9th grade health class showed (much to my shock!) a thermoscopic video of a man getting an erection. I think I almost said, "Ohh! I get it!" outloud (I didn't though!)

Anon

When my sister was around 4, someone read her that Dr Seuss book about the things that go through a machine and the stars go onto their tummies. Somehow, she inferred that if she wanted to change into a boy, all we would have to do was put her through a machine, and she would come out the other end with a penis. I fully believe that this was because my aunt used to refer to a vagina as a womans "special star".

Anon

When I was little, before I had ever seen a vagina, I thought that women peed through a little hole in the same spot that a penis is on a man. Imagine the way a Barbie doll looks; I thought on a real woman it looked like that only with a little pin hole in the front to let the pee out. I don't know if it's because I may have heard it called a 'pee-hole' or if seeing my sister's dolls influenced my thinking.

Nick