Ok, so not exactly my misconception
in fact, not mine at all.
I'm a young 'un, not super young but im approaching 19 with manly vigour. Anyway, I am not superbly well versed in the ways ofwomen but I get by. I also, apparently, know more than one of my female friends (henceforth known as A).

This occured early last year, not long into our final year of VCE (that's the important bit of high school in Australia). I was sitting around with said friend and another female friend of mine (who was VERY well versed in the ways of sexing, henceforth known as B) out the front of school and our conversation turned to a discussion of sex.

I assumed that A and B knew at least as much as me about female anatomy and made some sort of dirty joke about lady genitals, and A didn't get it... I thought maybe I'd made a mistake and that I had just made myself look like a total sex-noob, but no, B was laughing.
So I explained the joke to A and she still didn't get it. At this point I got worried and was compelled to ask:
"Do you know what a clitoris is?"

No she did not. She pretended to, but it was quite clear she had no real clue. So I sat there, with all the wisdom I had gained regarding women, and explained basically ALL of sex. Boys, girls, everything. The only thing she knew was WRONG, she thought that when a guy got an erection it was just like a balloon inflating, which is sort of true, but she thought that it was COMPLETELY HOLLOW when not erect...

Good lord. So after I had run through the basics of mimsies, A went off to class and B and I spent a good half hour laughing our arses off.

I'd assume she had never gone beyond kissing if I didnt know better (which I did, having personally taken her to third base or whatever the younglings call it now).

Honestly, you'd think by eighteen a girl would understand her own genitals
(Monsun beery wanderlust, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 17:05, 5 replies)

Oh god that's fabulous
Poor poor thing!
(Killer Vanilla puts the win in Darwin, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 22:56, closed)

Im not sure about fabulous
but after A left, i had to turn to B and make sure i hadnt made any mistakes in regards to girly bits. i hadnt and im very proud of that
(Monsun beery wanderlust, Sat 27 Sep 2008, 12:59, closed)

VCE (that's the important bit of high school in Australia
only if you're in VIC, doesn't mean fuck to me- then neither did my HSC....
(misskitty reeks of sex and turpentine; laudanum afternoons, Sat 27 Sep 2008, 6:05, closed)

I had to
explain what a clitoris was to an 18 year old girl in college. I felt very sad for her.
(DiscoStew, Sat 27 Sep 2008, 12:48, closed)

such a sad thing
and somewhat disturbing that it has to be done in the first place
(Monsun beery wanderlust, Sat 27 Sep 2008, 12:58, closed)