when i was four years old i learned what the word prostitute meant. i never really saw the word again until 3 years ago when i was in the 6th grade. well, at least i thought i saw it. we had a vocabulary list with the words and definitions, and one of the words was prosecute, as in what you do to someone in court. i read it once over quickly and i was so convinced it was prostitute that i didn't even bother to read the definintion. i went home to my mom and told her that they were teaching us about prostitutes and stuff like that at school. she got very mad because she thought they really were. she called up the main office to complain and everything. needless to say i was in a lot of trouble when she found out the truth.
A childhood belief about sex
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- I thought the word economical was actually two words: eek and omical.
— Nancy M. - For years I heard the word "pedophile" and thought it meant a pedicurist's tool.— Lauren
- Until I was about 11 or 12 I thought that "prostitute" referred to a female criminal.Anon
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny
- I used to believe that the words Angliphile and Francophile were related to the word paedophiles.Anon
- I fully believed, up until about 6 years old, that the word 'accident' was a noun that meant 'burnt toast'.— Karl Goetz