When I was about 9 or 10 and first heard of "hookers", I thought they were women who hung out just about anywhere and snatched unsuspecting men that passed by with shepherd's crooks, didn't learn the truth for several years after, even after watching Pretty Woman.
A childhood belief about criminals

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if passed beneath a rainbow I would turn into a woman.— Felipe
- i use to think boy geroge from the culture club was a pretty woman.— toe
- When I first met my husband, he thought women didn't fart. He was really surprised after he met me!!!Anon
- when i was a little girl, i beleived that women didnt have bums, because i never heard my mom fart. Anon
- My mom used to think "preschool" was called "pretty school" until a few years later.— Molly
- I thought the line in the song "more than a woman" was "four-legged woman".— boo