First time other kids said to me, "are you a virgin?", I only knew of virgins from the megastores and the record label. And maybe the virgin mary, but didn't get the significance. So of course I said "no"...

Oh, and not knowing what "Virginia" was, so wondered why anyone was selling tobacco called "golden vagina". Oops.

ex-non-virginian-virgin

Last year in my freshman year of highschool, some freshman boy asked me if a I was a virgin. I thought he meant if I was a "virgo".

I said no, and he freaked out.

Michelle

When I was 8 or 9, I believed that virginity and viagra were the same thing. When I saw on TV about somone taking somone's virginity, I thought they took the'yr viagra pills! Then I wondered what viagra was for, so I asked my mom. She said it was medicine for a boys pee pee. Then I asked what a virigin was then. She said it is Jesus's mother and that virgins are holy.(Not wanting to explain the birds and bees at ages 8). I then thought when somone took somones virginity it meant they made them a satanist.

(Also, when my cousin (a boy) has a bladder infection I knew it had something to do with his pee. I told my aunt that he should take his viagra. I wondered why she was on the floor laughing..)

Anon

I used to believe that Vagina was pronounced Vag-na. I also used to believe that Penis was pronounced pen-is like a pen. In addition, I believed that if you french kissed a boy you were no longer a virgin. I found this out one day at the local pool when I proudly told a 15 year old lifeguard that I was no longer a virgin at 11. She was aghast and said that she was still a virgin and I wondered if maybe I had the wrong idea about what a virgin was!

Ellen Hietala

up until i was 11 i thought a virgin was someone from Virginia. i only found out what it was when a frind of mine came up to me and said `guess what. (so-and-so) isn`t a virgin` and i responded `duh. i know. she`s from Texas`

Caylee the confused

i used to believe that virginity was a disease that you cured by letting a boy touch u for a few minutes

heather

having been brought up in a christian home, i was taught songs about the virgin Mary... when i asked my mum what a virgin was, she said it was someone who had never slept with someone else. I was about six at the time so i didnt know by 'sleep' she meant having sex, i though she literally meant sleep, so for like three years i was convinced i wasnt a virgin coz i had slept in the same bed as my sister lots of times

Anon

In year six everyone was learning about 'virgins and non-virgins' etc, and we were all really confused as to which meant which, so when my this boy asked my friend if she was a virgin (he knew the difference) she went 'eurgh, don't be disgusting...of course i'm not!'

i still make fun of her, dirty girl !

lellie

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 about 10 i had overheard a group of girls asking eachother if they were virgins, i asked them what they meant by that and they then told me that a virgin was someone who had never kissed anyone before. so they next day in class i proudly tell everyone that im not a virgin at all, and havent been one since i was 8. my teacher must of been worried. now i know better.

BittenOnEntrance

I first recall hearing the word "virgin" in Mel Brook's "History of the World Part I." I figured that was a term for someone who was a resident of Virginia.

a former child

My sister was sitting at the breakfast table one morning near Christmas when she suddenly said to my mom, "Mom, a vegeatarian's someone who only eats vegetables, right?"
"Yes, honey," my mom replied.
"And...a vegan's someone who doesn't eat any animal stuff, right?"
"Yes, honey," said my mom, wondering where this one was going.
"So, mom...what's a virgin?" she asked innocently.
My mom explained it all, but I don't think she quite got it, as she later wrote in one of her school-books, "The lady's name is Layla-May, and she is a virgin"...
Also, once when I was little I found my mom's pills on the bedside table. I asked my dad what they were and he told me they'd stop her having a baby.
For years after I believed that if she didn't take a pill every day, a baby would spontaneously pop out of her belly...

worried&confused

This was the girl in our school named Mary Louise and every time you would ask her if she was a virgin she would reply with "No I'm a Christian"

Too Funny

When I was little 'Hocus Pocus' was one of my favorite movies. In one scene, a fake cop asked the main character 'Are you a virgin, kid?' and he replies 'Uh huh. Look, I'll get a tatto on my forehead!' Ans so for the longest time, I thought a virgin was someone who did not have a tatto.

Maddy

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

when my mom first told me about the birds and the bees, she didn't really explain virginity, so i thought after you had sex, you gave the man a gift called virginity

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

When I was in middle school I used to think that my mom would know when I lost my virginity, because my pee would come out faster!!! I thought my piss whole and my vagina was the same hole...i know i kno i was sad

bo0g

In sixth grade we believed that if you used dirty words you were no longer a virgin, so we went around bragging about how we weren't virgins anymore. We honestly had no idea it had anything to do with sex! Wasn't that silly?

Laura and Patty

Being a catholic, when i was younger i was always taught about the virgin mary, not completley understanding what a virgin was apart from mary was one and she was pretty much god's wife, when madonna released 'like a virgin' i thought for a long time that she was in fact a nun!

bitdopey