Exposure to a girl's 'downstairs' at an early age
Aged 3 in kindergarten, all the little kindergarteners would queue up in the toilet to have a piss. There was only one toilet, so having sex-segregated toilets was not a viable option. We did not queue up outside the toilet, but in the toilet. This meant you got to see who had what and what they were doing with it.

Inevitably, I got to see a few girls having a piss. Firstly, I noticed that instead of a penis, there was just a blank area of skin (a bit like a Barbie doll). Secondly, they always sat down, even if they were just having a piss. So I soon came to the conclusion that girls weed out their bumhole and had only one hole (I would not learn about the thing about babies until I was much older (or maybe I did sort of know about it and thought the willy had been closed down to make room for babies) ).

Having up until now only seen my own and other's penises, I thought this was a bit odd. Either the penis was an added extension to make it possible to pee standing up, or girls had had it closed down, removed and blocked up with skin (a bit like how a disused window would be bricked up or a disused fireplace would be boarded up) to make going to the toilet more efficient (they could do #1 and #2 at the same time and would never have to do #1 differently if #2 needed to be done as well). As I was using my own anatomy for reference, my 3 year old mind assumed the willy was taken away and not an addition.

And this is why you shouldn't expose kids at such young age to the unmentionables of the far-side. Given a lack of knowledge and an embarrassment when it comes to asking questions, the stuff they make up to explain things can lead to all sorts of strange ideas... on second thoughts, perhaps this could be a stimulus for cultivating creativity...

Incidentally, this was when I noticed that boys and girls were different. At first, I just memorised who was bearing what in their underpants, but as this went on, I started to recognise a pattern or two (e.g. girls generally had longer hair than boys, but there were some exceptions).

Length? Inversely proportional to hair length (or so I thought back then).
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 2 Oct 2008, 10:33, Reply)