#190 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,5,6,7,8,9
While my story is a bit different, I feel compelled to tell it to you in hopes that maybe it will show light on another issue facing youth within the…
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Legend for Consequences Suffered (CS):
- Inappropriate shame and guilt
- Childhood self-loathing
- Adulthood self-loathing
- Normalizing children to sexual questions by adult men. (Grooming)
- Sexual abuse. (Pedophilia)
- Impaired sexual relations after marriage.
- Years of recovery from childhood shaming. Often lasting decades.
- Suicide Ideation
- Attempted Suicide
- Suicide of a loved one or friend.
#191 Name Hidden. CS: 1,4,7
My story is about the pain of ignorance- how we can hurt and be hurt by our false beliefs. It is about how I was hurt when I was sexually…
#192 Name Withheld CS: 1,2,3,4,7
While I was at college I felt extreme guilt for masturbation. Because of the LDS culture, I was raised to believe I had to confess my sins to the bishop.…
#193 Marissa. CS: 1,2,8,9
Growing up LDS, you are taught that sexual sins are one of the worst sins a person can commit, right below murder. When I realized at the age of 12…
#194 Rhonda J. CS: 1,2,3,4,6,7,8
I rarely had an interview by a bishop or by my own dad that was a bishop that didn’t have some extent of very uncomfortable questions having to do with…
#195 Name Hidden. CS: 1
When I was 15 I was physically forced into having sex with a 20 year old friend of my brothers who had been flirting with me and following me for…
#196 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,6,7
My experience going through the Young Men’s program in the LDS Church in California was probably about as good as it could be. I feel very fortunate to have had…
#197 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,7,8,9
I still have not yet recovered from the damage these interviews caused me when I was younger. It damaged my confidence, shamed me from such an early age and caused…
#198 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,6,7,8
Due to the detailed questions, interrogations and guilt shaming I received as a youth in the church, I know have psychological issues with intimacy. I had sex with my husband…
#199 Name Hidden. CS: 1,3
I suffered domestic violence since the first year of my marriage til the very last day of my marriage. 8 years of terror, fear and hell. The day I told…
#200 Name hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9. Other: Unable to trust myself – always needing someone in authority to tell me what I needed to do
My story is complicated. I was sexually abused by family members when I was 5-7, but I didn’t know that’s what it was and didn’t tell anyone. I didn’t feel…
#201 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,7,8,9
This is a difficult story to tell. I am sharing it now in the hope that it’ll help put pressure on the church to change these horrid policies, or maybe…
#202 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,6,7,8
Growing up a girl in the church I was never told that masturbation was wrong; I guess they thought only boys did it. So I started masturbating very young to…
#203 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,7. Other: Extreme fear of Hell and punishment for normal developmental processes; anxiety disorder (OCD)
Some LDS readers might turn a blind eye to stories that don’t fit their worldview of ‘ultimate authority’ and blind trust in leaders. The gospel is the product being distributed…
#204 Michelle. CS: 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9,10. Other: Self harm
My story starts with me realizing early in my elementary years, that I liked boys and girls. I was also sexually abused by an older child during first grade. I…
#205 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,6,7
As a young man I felt incredibly guilty about masturbation. I felt like I was the only one with this “sin” and that it made me a horrible person. The…
#206 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,4,6,7
I had a Bishop that I went to after being sexually assaulted, as a child. My parents thought that this interview would help me, as nobody wanted to report what…
#207 Marissa S. CS: 1,2,3,6,7
By all accounts, my childhood was pretty perfect. I grew up in the church, had awesome friends, leaders, and experiences. My dad was my bishop until my early teens, then…
#208 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,6,7,8
Growing up LDS, sex and sexual topics were a taboo topic that we never talked about in our home. When I began to experience sexual feelings, I felt like I…
#209 Melissa B. CS: 1,2,3,6,7,8,9
I was eight years old when I was sexually abused, I didn’t even understand what had happened really, I just knew it felt wrong and scary. I was very confused…