I didn’t even know what masturbation was until I had an interview with my bishop at age 12. From that interview I was told that it was really bad, and that any type of sexual relation was bad prior to marriage. Well, when you get married, a switch doesn’t suddenly change so that everything that…
As a boy in high school, I had a friend who was a girl. We had a great relationship just as friends. One day she told me she had slept with another boy be accident. She thought she might have been date raped. I was not jealous as I had no romantic attraction to her,…
I only ever knew about pornography and masturbation from the church deacons quorum meetings. Our teachers lectured us young (12) on how we shouldn’t lust and masturbate and do all these other things. I now realize how inappropriate that was. I have feelings for men and I tried to hide it and would cry myself…
From the time I was a very young girl, I was being sexually abused by multiple members of my family. As is common for children in this situation, I was convinced that it was all my fault, the result of some error or fundamental flaw on my part. The shame was overwhelming, and so I…