While taking Sex Education class, my teacher would always refer to people's private parts as the "groin area". I misunderstood him and thought that he was saying "growing area". It some wierd way, it made sense to me to call a man's private parts the "growing area", but I was really confused why a woman's private parts should be called that too!
A childhood belief about rude bits

others believed things like this
- When I was a child, I used to believe that armpits were private parts— Duda Gueiros
- When I was younger I was certain my "private" was called a ba-china... the boy's were pickles. — taliba
- When I was a kid, I wondered why they called it "public hair" when it was so private.Anon
I used to believe a man and a woman needed a doctor to put their parts together when they did it.— Phil- I thought that only the mother made the child, the father was an "extra" in this area— Lea Weiss
- I thought there were only four ranks in the army: private, corporal, Seargeant, and General— Alberto Richardson