Warning: Sexually Explicit content.

Legend for Consequences Suffered (CS):

  1. Inappropriate shame and guilt
  2. Childhood self-loathing
  3. Adulthood self-loathing
  4. Normalizing children to sexual questions by adult men. (Grooming)
  5. Sexual abuse. (Pedophilia)
  6. Impaired sexual relations after marriage.
  7. Years of recovery from childhood shaming.  Often lasting decades.
  8. Suicide Ideation
  9. Attempted Suicide
  10. Suicide of a loved one or friend.

#22 Don B. CS: 1,2,7

Shortly after my Mormon family moved to La Grande, Oregon in 1971, my father told me that I had a meeting with the bishop. I was just fourteen, and I…

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#23 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,6

When I was high school age, I had been involved in some sexual actions with a person of the opposite sex. Because of this, I felt Guilt and went to…

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#24 Name Hidden. CS: 1,3,4

The first time I remember hearing the word masturbation and learning what it meant was in a priesthood worthiness interview when I was 12-14 years old.

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#28 Name Hidden. CS: 4

When my 12 year old came home from a baptism for the dead interview she asked me what anal sex was. I asked her where she’d heard that and she…

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#30 Name Hidden. CS: 1,3,7

I went to my bishop to “repent” after having sex with my boyfriend at the age of 17. I had to describe the entire experience to him, every detail. This…

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#31 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,6

I was interviewed by a member of the bishopric prior to going to the temple to perform baptisms for the dead. He asked me, as a 13 girl, if I…

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#33 Name Hidden. CS: 1,3,6

I could write a whole story about my experience, but I’ll just tell you what happened in the Bishop’s office. I was 18, living away from home in the college…

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#34 Name Hidden. CS: 1,3,6,8

When I was a sophomore in college I went to watch a movie with a foreign exchange student who lived in our appointment complex. I was hoping he would be…

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#35 Name Hidden CS: 1,2,3,8

I was never sexually abused by a bishop. I was however sexually abused by various people including family members from the age of 5 until 13. After the abuse stopped…

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#37 Name Hidden. CS: 1

When I was in Young Women’s, I was being interviewed to get my temple recommend and I felt that I wasn’t worthy because I had been looking at pornographic images.…

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#38b Name Hidden CS: 1,2,4,7,8

What a terrible policy that needs to be changed- These specific questions have caused me so much unneeded stress and anxiety because what kind of 13 year old wants to…

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