When I was very young I asked my mother what a virgin was. Embarrassed, she told me that a virgin was somebody who hasn't slept with anyone else. I believed that she meant literally sleeping in the same room as someone else.
I was very embarrassed when my class went to camp in 5th grade, and I started yelling that I didn't want to sleep in the dorms because I wanted to stay a virgin.

Rachy

I used to believe that if you kissed someone on the lips, you'd lose your virginity.

Ika Delilah.

When the word "virgin" popped up in the 7th or 8th grade, during a health or science lesson, I never related it to sex. In fact at the time I just thought they meant "virgin" as in, The Virgin Mary, and at the time, as embarrassing as this is to admit, I didnt really understand why they called The Virgin Mary, The Virgin Mary anyway. I never would put sex and religion together. Virgin, was just a word i didnt know.

Lauren

Until I was 12 years old I used to believe that losing your virginity meant kissing a boy!

Lindsey

I use to think that making-out meant "going all the way". I use to get frustrated with my mother when she asked me if I was sexually active, because all of my friends make-out all the time. (I was 15) Now im 18 and glad I know otherwise.

Anon

thought a virgin was someone who had waaaay too much sex.

Anon

we were learning about astrology and i thought that virgos were known as virgins...hmmm

Marlee

When I was a child the only virgin I'd heard of refered to as such was the virgin Mary.
I also knew that Joseph wasn't yet her husband when she became pregnant (and nor was jehovah obviously).
Logically therefore a virgin must be an unmarried mother.
I continued to assume this until some idiot boys at school started asking all the girls if they were virgins (around ten years old I think) and it occured to me that none of us had children so it must be something else.

Amelia

I used to think that if you were a virgin it meant you had sex before. little did i know it was the other way around. I thought this beucase the stupid boys in our 4th grade class would go around asking you if you were a virgin. if you said yes it was bad, and if you said no they would leave you alone. so for years some crude jokes or whatever by kids would say are you a virgin i'd say no. even though i was i was i had it backwards. lol.

layla

i used to think whenever you decide to lose your virginity you will go to a doctor and he would kindly create a hole for you in order to lose your virginity.
lucky doctors doh :P

chilli

I used to think that virginity was an astrological sign like being an Aries or Gemini. This was because I was watching Hocus Pocus and they were making a big deal that only virgins could light the black flame candle.

Mickey

I remember me and a group of friends sitting one evening discussing stuff-i think we were about 11. I think we all though virginity was when you had had sex..cos we all said we werent virgins!

Anon

When I was little I thought that a tampon would "pop your cherry." I thought only people who weren't virgins could use tampons.

Anon

When I was younger I would watch the movie Hocus Pocus with my dad all the time. I LOVED it, but there's one part in that movie where they tell the teenage boy that the spell can only be broken by a virgin. So I asked my dad what a virgin was and for the next 4 years I thought a virgin was someone who had never kissed anyone!

Julie