Most Unusual Sexual Myth You Actually Believed

Not sure if this is a myth or not, but I was always told as a kid you could get sexual diseases from public toilet seats, I was always scared to death to sit down on public toilet.

The coca cola myth is as old as the hills.

Yes it is - I was there when that myth was started. 😉

Sorry of course it's collagen. The surf was gigantic today and I took too many wipeouts. They had the Mavericks contest in 20+ foot surf.

Not sure if this is a myth or not, but I was always told as a kid you could get sexual diseases from public toilet seats, I was always scared to death to sit down on public toilet.

This is a myth that my mother and my wife's mother also firmly believed in. They were from the generation born in the 1920s, so somewhat on the older side. Even so, my wife told me her mother also imparted that bit of folk misinformation to her when she was young. Luckily my wife knew or learned better.

In the case of my mother that myth made traveling for her - and by extension for the rest of the family as well - into a small personal hell. No public toilet or restroom was ever good enough for her. Normal hotels were out of the question, they had to be from the (expensive) upper echelons. The same with restaurants or cafés. If they didn't meet her hygienic approval then she would just refuse to use the rest rooms and we had to find something else soon. I think she would rather have burst her bladder than use a public toilet or use one in an establishment that for whatever personal reason of hers, didn't live up to her standards.

If she hadn't been my mother and if it hadn't affected all of us in the family (by loosing time searching for suitable places or not going on trips because of the possibility of not finding anything suitable or by being embarrassed by her attitude) there might have been a comical side to it all. But it wasn't funny at all. Once we checked into a perfectly nice small hotel in London and my mother refused to stay there. Not up to her sanitary standards. So off we went to the Hilton instead. My father muttering about the expense and the kids blushing from embarrassment.

She missed out on a lot of traveling that she actually loved very much and dreamed about. But it had to be first class or not at all. Obviously not being the Rockefellers, it was often no traveling or trips.

So sad such ridiculous myths, the cause of missed opportunities and needless worries.

I don't know if this is considered a myth or not, but when I was in my early teens I thought 69 meant the sixty-ninth time you had sex. Boy was I confused... Didn't understand why it was so special or anything. Came up at a sleepover with a group of friends one time and I guess I said something really dumb because they all looked at me so oddly. Next day at lunch, the most outgoing girl in my friend group took a banana and "demonstrated" as best she could.

Ohhh the days of immaturity...

Someone once wrote to a newspaper's agony aunt advice column asking if it was possible to contract venereal disease in a public lavatory. The reply was, "Definitely, but the floors are usually cold and damp!".

Mashie Said,,

>Oh and another one, I also heard that if you don't air out the va jay jay nightly mold could grow on it and then you would stink.

I have to admit, I am a big fan of having my lady friends air out the va jay jay nightly. I am not sure that one is a myth.

@agracier That notion did not die out with your wife's mother's generation. I have a neighbor, probably born mid 1950s, who is the same way. Traveling about 1200 miles between their winter home in Florida, and their rest-of-the-year home close to me, she insists on having a family member or two to drive them straight through. No hotels or motels. I have no idea how she handles bathroom stops enroute.

7th grade or thereabouts, having just discovered masturbation...

In order to have a baby, the man and woman must orgasm simultaneously. Otherwise no baby. 😕

I was told a joke when I was very young about a man and a woman laying on railroad tracks having sex and didn't stop and get out of the way even though a train was coming. When the engineer finally got the train stopped, he got out and went and talked to them. He asked why they wouldn't move, the guy told him this. I was a coming and she was a coming and you were a coming but you were the only one that had any brakes! So honestly for years I thought when you started masturbating and you were at the point of orgasm if for some reason you had to stop you would not be able to even if you tried. And for that reason even though I wanted to find out what it was all about I would not masturbate, because I had been taught you should NOT do that, until finally the day came and I found myself all alone in the house and knew my mom and dad would not be back for HOURS that I decided to finally find out how that felt. I hate to admit but I was 16 at the time! LOL I was a little disappointed it didn't last longer! LOL The myth had been disproved!

^^^ Thems the" breaks" as they say

In US Army basic training, many believed the cure for an STD was a square needle in the dick

Stoney,

You have also revealed another sexual myth,,,,

FACT:

Fucking people in the middle of RR tracks, listen, do not survive an approaching train, without getting well out of the way.

When I was 15 I thought oral sex was literally talking about sex. I was finally clued in the next year when a girlfriend showed me the chapter and pictures of oral sex in the Sex Atlas.

Back in the mid-90s, I was working Monday mornings in an Urgent Care attached to the ER of an academic center in a college town. Monday mornings were essentially an STD clinic, which made thing interesting from time to time.

Two stories from those days:

1. The treatment required antibiotics twice a day for a week. We would actually tell the guys that if they didn't finish the antibiotics that their parts would fall off! It really helped with the compliance rate 😃

2. A 19-20 year old woman presented for a pregnancy test. On intake, I sent her for a urine sample and had the negative results for the PA when she went in to see the patient. The PA come running out of the room and falls over laughing. Apparently, the patient thought that oral sex could lead to pregnancy.

A 19-20 year old woman presented for a pregnancy test. The PA come running out of the room and falls over laughing. Apparently, the patient thought that oral sex could lead to pregnancy.

Maybe you could chalk up these wacky beliefs to a very very flawed sex education system from wherever they grew up? Maybe it's part of the abstinence-only philosophy with a few extra's tacked on to really scare the bejesus out of the kids from engaging in sex - which by the way, didn't seem to have worked very well ...

I was looking for the right thread to share it, I hope it fits.

Until my mid-teens I was suspecting that my median raphe was a scar from some gruesome operation done to my willy when I was so young I couldn't remember it. It is twisting quite a bit , like an S, sometimes appearing rised, sometimes almost disappearing. Looking from the underside, it starts slightly to the left, but by the time it reaches the glans is all the way on the right side, so forming a bit of a diagonal. Interestingly the skin on the right side is a bit more of a scrotal skin in appearance, with some hair at the base and hair follicles almost up to the glans. Towards the top, the raphe goes a bit on the side ridge of my foreskin overhang and finally comes back to the underside where it is most prominent and appearing again on the left side of where frenulum is underneath.

I was thinking that either my penis used to be somehow hidden into my scrotum or it was not properly formed and had to be surgically corrected. I had a feeling that during the puberty my willy couldn't catch up with the growing testicles, which hightened my suspicions that something wasn't right with it.

Use it or lose it

I am very discriminating.

Even as a child, I recognized a bullshit myth when I heard one.

That boys could get Blue Balls and that if they didn't get to cum after becoming aroused it could cause physical injury. I was much too old before I found out that was BS.

@agracier:

No public toilet or restroom was ever good enough for her. (…) I think she would rather have burst her bladder than use a public toilet or use one in an establishment that for whatever personal reason of hers, didn't live up to her standards.

SAME FOR MY MOTHER, though mine accepted hotel toilets.

In addition, my mother could go pee pee in the woods, but was obsessed by the idea that the whole world would be interested in seeing that. So not only did all males in the family need to provably look away, we had to stand perimeter guard in case there was somebody far away that could see something.

When I was a kid in the UK we were often told that if you masturbated hair would grow on the palm of your hand.

Well let me tell you i have been practicing for nigh on 60 years now and the palms of my hands are still bald.

I recall hearing you would get warts on your hand and thingy if you masturbated.

I never believed it, but adults would say if you don’t stop masturbating you will go blind.

That boys could get Blue Balls and that if they didn't get to cum after becoming aroused it could cause physical injury. I was much too old before I found out that was BS

Hey, do us all a favor and keep that one under your hat! It gets a lot of good mileage.

In jr high we used to tell the 7th grade boys about the hair growing on the palms of their hands and when they looked we would laugh like hell and tease them about being wankers.

Most of the replies (I didn't look at all of them) seem directed to men: warts, hair growing on the hand, going blind. In high school the girls rumored that:

“You can get pregnant in a hot tub without having intercourse”.

While in my early teens and starting to experiment sexually with girls there was a myth going around that the girl's vagina could ‘click’ and you wouldn't be able to pull your willy out of her…

While in my early teens and starting to experiment sexually with girls there was a myth going around that the girl's vagina could ‘click’ and you wouldn't be able to pull your willy out of her…

I know a couple of girls in Hong Kong who could validate that myth!

That sex was somehow something to be ashamed of.

Screw that shit. Sex is fun. Go on with your bad, kinky self.