Matthew McConaughey is a great example of why some celebrities are generally liked while others are generally loathed. Matthew is often making fun of himself, letting you know he doesn’t think he’s perfect, telling jokes, and has an easy way about him. And that translates and makes him likeable.

Case in point: Matthew admitted to Elle magazine that he got most of his early ideas about female anatomy from Playboy – back in the eighties, when the magazine featured a more “natural” approach to southern female grooming habits. And that led to a bit of confusion on his end.

Matthew McConaughey might be the epitome of rugged masculinity, winning his leading ladies’ hearts in romantic comedy after romantic comedy, but even this hunky Texan wasn’t always the wisest guy in the bedroom.

“From checking out Playboy I always thought — jeezum, we still don’t have a better word for it than vagina, do we? —I thought it was behind the pubic hair, and it faced horizontal. You know, east/west, not south,” he admits to Elle. “So the first time I got to third base, man, I was hunting for a long time.”

[From OK! Magazine]

As OK! points out, Matthew obviously eventually got the hang of it, since he’s now a dad. But his story makes complete sense to me. When I was a kid, my mom let me watch “Days of Our Lives” with her every day. And every day, she’d say the exact same thing: “I really shouldn’t let you watch this.” As a result, I grew up with some fairly dramatic ideas of what relationships were like: I thought it was completely commonplace for men to wear eye patches, women to slap each other over relatively slight disagreements, and a great deal of human interactions took place in excessively bubbly hot tubs.

But my best misconception was about French kissing. Whenever two characters would start to kiss, their heads would begin tilting and the camera would cut away. This was the eighties mind you; they probably zoom in for a close-up now. Anyway, I naturally thought that if the cameras were to stay right where they were, we’d see that the couple’s heads just kept tilting until eventually they went all the way around. I think I even imagined their legs left the ground; the laws of physics definitely did not apply.

Unlike Matthew I’d luckily figured out the error in my logic before I actually got to that stage in my life, but I empathize with him nonetheless. It’s an excellent reason why children should not rely on Playboy and soap operas to learn about kissing and sex.

Here’s Matthew shopping for glasses in Malibu on Monday. Yep, the paparazzi are getting desperate. Images thanks to Fame Pictures .