When I was about eleven or twelve and heard the teenage girl on the bus talk about "getting her cherry popped" I thought she was talking bout some guy popping off her nipples. I figured out a few years later that it meant losing her virginity.
A childhood belief about virginity

others believed things like this
- Until I was 12 years old I used to believe that losing your virginity meant kissing a boy!— Lindsey
- I used to believe that when you "popped a cherry" an actual cherry popped out.— donp
- For years I heard the word "pedophile" and thought it meant a pedicurist's tool.— Lauren
- As a child I thought virginity was a religion. — Susan
- When I was little I thought that only little girls had nipples, and they went away when you grow up. — Cutie
- I thought nipples disappeared at a certain age because Barbie never had them.Anon