For over 7 years I was had meetings with my bishop/stake president/mission president at least monthly to talk about my masturbation “addiction”. Most of them were kind and did not ask for many details. They always told me I could overcome it if I had faith in Jesus Christ and tried to access his atonement.…
I had joined the church later in my life as a young single mom. My son had the opportunity to go to a temple trip with the rest of the youth and was going to be leaving Canada and going to the US for the first time. I found out that he would be staying…
These grown white men need to stop asking masturbation questions to kids they barely know!! Crazy racist cult! I grew up Mormon and am happy not to be associated with the faith anymore. Keep up the great work!!
I was a young adult when I joined the church.. fast forward and I made a friendship with an older man in the church who helped teach me, guide me, study etc.. he ended up touching me inappropriately in his home and I ran away in the middle of the night and later gathered the…
I was raised in the church and my mother was sexually and physically abused by my biological father. Whenever she tried to leave him, the church held her back in several ways. After he began sexually abusing me as an infant, my mother left him. However, regular unsupervised visits with him still happened and I…
I grew up in the LDS church with parents, siblings, friends, and many other family members. I was taught from a young age that men in the bishopric are called of God and that they answer to him. I was raised to trust bishops by my church family. When I turned 12 and I entered…
My first memory of worthiness interviews was being terrified at 7 when masturbation was explained to me in graphic detail but my parents insisted that I go ahead and be baptized. I was young, I felt powerless… This normalization made me an easy target I guess, it was years later that this normalization would have…
March 10, 2019 Dear President Nelson, I’ve heard that it doesn’t matter if I write you or not because my letter will get kicked back to the Area 70 that the postage is from and I’ll get contacted directly. I hope that by not using my name, that won’t be the case and you’ll actually…
Roughly 12-14 years ago a sibling of mine came forward with a terrible story. He gathered the family together and informed us that when he was younger he had been groomed and repeatedly fondled and raped by a former bishop. He approximated that he had been about 10 -12 years old when it hard started.…
I grew up in the church and remember never properly being taught about sexuality until my teenage years. Even then it were very vague attempts. It always seemed as though people at church were embarrassed (or largely uninformed themselves) teaching about these things and even my parents never really taught me anything. The only occasion…