I’ll never understand why my parents thought it was a good idea or allowed me to stay overnight with a 60 year old (approx.), single man who recently immigrated to the United States when I was about 7 or 8 years old, but they did. This man was someone my father was instrumental in bringing…
Growing up I was taught in church that masturbation was the most vile and nasty thing and no one did it except really bad people, at least that is the impression I got. I had so much fear and shame around masturbation that I would never allow myself to masturbate but I did everything else…
When I was 19 (10 years ago) I talked to my Bishop week after week repenting for pre marital sex. He asked for details, positions, what birth control was used, the location of the act, how many minutes, and he wrote down the details I told him. He repeated this for a few weeks each…
When you are an #LDS girl alone in a room with a #Mormon Priesthood leader man who gets an erection then makes his advance by pressing his erection against you, that is sexual assault. #MormonMeToo — skiiergirl (@skiiergirl) March 21, 2018
My first bishop interview about masturbation happened when I was 14 in 1984. I did not know what that was at the time. I had 3 more interviews about masturbation between the ages of 14-17 years old. I felt uncomfortable about his interest in that subject. It was creepy. He seemed so pleased to bring…
I am currently a member of the LDS church. Growing up I had many great leaders in the church that taught me a lot of good. I can’t imagine how difficult the calling of a bishop would be. I know there are a lot of sacrifices made in this calling. I do, however, feel very…
I was sexualized when I was 14 by an adult female, “Helen”. She was in her mid-20s. At the same time I was also given drugs——not a soft drug, like marijuana, but “acid”, or LSD. (This is a long story and I won’t go into it here, only to say that this is what basically…
I was a teenager in the LDS church in the late 70s and 80s. My parents never had “the talk” with me or told me anything about human sexuality. We didn’t own a TV and I was pretty sheltered. So basically my introduction to human sexuality was from my bishop interviews. When I was 14,…
In May of 2017, my daughter was due for a baptismal interview. I told the bishop in passing that I needed to be present for that interview. About a week later he asked me to meet with him, he had been thinking about my request. In that meeting I told him that in general I…
My mother was inactive LDS growing up. My dad was of another faith. I didn’t go to church often, but would at times go play basketball with neighborhood friends who were LDS. At one of these shootarounds when I was thirteen, I was pulled into the bishop’s office without either of my parent’s consent or…