What was the first thing, correct or incorrect, you remember learning about sex?

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The husband puts *something* inside his wife's vagina. I didn't know that something was supposed to be his penis; I just imagined a pencil or some similar object. I heard that from some kid in kindergarten.

I learned that babies were made when a man puts his seed inside a woman. Being about six at the time, I thought this happened at the wedding when the vicar says 'you may now kiss the bride' and that 'weird open mouth kiss like they do on TV' was how the seed was transferred. (I think I imagined it being about the size and shape of a sunflower seed)

That babies come from a woman's belly, but how they got there I didn't know, wasn't told, and honestly didn't really think about. I was around 7 years old when during swimming lessons a friend of mine told me that grown-ups have sex when a man puts his penis in your vagina (organs that up to that point I thought of as only meant to be used for peeing). I thought it was a gross-out story so I did the natural thing for a kid that age: I tattled on her. This didn't really work out when I was told she was right. I learned about the specifics of pregnancy later, but I'm not sure how or when. By the time the subjects were covered in class I already knew most of it.

That French Kissing is a kind of Sex and I'd get pregnant if I did it (this is particularly funny because I'm a trans girl and as far as the one telling me this was concerned I was a boy at the time.)

Girls have two X chromosomes.

(Which isn't always true, of course, but yeah, my Mum taught me that when I was three. She probably also explained where babies come from, first, but I don't remember any of that earlier conversation).

Holding hands makes babies.

Until the age of about 6
i believed that vagina was like an inside out penis with non of the inside bits. I also believed if you had sex really hard it would come out like pulling your hand out of a rubber glove. Why I believed this I have no idea but its my oldes memory about how it all worked

I thought that laying on top of each other (just like, still), or rolling around in a bed together was sex. I remember my friend at age 6 had a 'boyfriend' and she said she laid on top of him and I was like !!!she had sex! but I didn't correlate sex to pregnancy yet- I thought you just got pregnant when you got married.

The sperm swarms the egg. Didn't know what a sperm cell was or what an egg cell really was much less where they came from but I knew that it was kind of like how chickens had chicks except inside your body (I was raised on a farm).

I was first taught sex was designed by a christian diety for men and women to have bleeding-penis-in-vagina sex, acceptable only to cause pregnancy in the woman, and only through a church ordained marriage. (I feel awful about those teachings now. And I did back then too, at least at the gendered unfairness.)

I remember children's books. One was a pretty 'how babies are made' story my mom read to me. One was like a fun anatomy lesson with tons of layers you play with.

I learned that the person with the vagina was supposed to bleed and that it would hurt a lot.

I must have been about five when my father told me that babies were made by putting a penis in a vagina. I couldn't think how this would work. Was it sort of stuffed in there by hand? It wasn't until years later that I realised that maybe that strange thing where you're penis went hard had something to do with it.

that if no one get's hurt it was ok. i was 12 at the time and new nothing about sex

I thought sperm cells were little babies who had to race to the egg, and only the fastest could become a baby. At the time, I was grateful of my sperm cell self's speed!

I was told that sex is when two people put their intimate or "private" parts together. Now I'm not so sure, because other things do count, and sometimes the private parts touching doesn't turn out to be very sexy.

I was told it was a sacred practice between two people, and everyone I knew strayed from the subject. I actually learned something about it from a science textbook when I was twelve. I still don't know much about it, so thank goodness for this website.

I was young, seven, maybe eight. There was a story on the local news where they stated that teen sex on the rise. I asked my grandma what sex was. "Sex is very very bad, honey, don't ever do it." I didn't learn another thing until sex ed in my Catholic grade school.

I thought that the people peed in each other because that's what my cousin told me. I had such a thick hymen, I only thought there was a urethra....

I thought sex works like so. Fist the boy gets naked and then the girl gets naked and then the girl lays on bed and the boy lays on top of her. In a few months a baby pops out! lol

My mom told me that she'd be able to tell when I had sex, because my legs would look different. I believed that lie for a LONG time.