Read The Stories

Warning: Sexually Explicit content.

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.

#702 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10

Long story short; When I was 11, I was molested. At 15 I was raped. I told the bishop and he told me I was going to hell and it…

#701 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,6,7. Other: Embarrassment, pain and distorted view of sexuality.

When I joined the church as a teenager, a week later the Bishop met with me and conducted a worthiness interview that asked a long series of inappropriate questions using…

#700 Name Hidden. CS: 1,3,6,7,8

I had previously dated the son of the bishop of our neighboring ward. We were sexually active, I had a lot of guilt and tried repenting and met with the…

#699 Name Hidden. CS: 1,3,4,5,7

My first two and a half years after I when to collage about four people saw the inside of my apartment. I could barely tolerate having anyone in my apartment…

#698 Joseph R. CS: 1,2,3,6

I don’t pretend that my story is as bad as many others however it may be more common. The worst part about my story is that it wasn’t my bishop…

#697 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,7

When I was a young teenager, I had a bishop ask me if I masturbated. I wasn’t even sure what that meant. I don’t completely remember how I responded. I…

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

Technically, this meeting with my bishop did not happen when I was a child, but it still happened when I was young. When I went to college and decided I…

#695 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,7

I hated being interviewed by my Branch President. If I had it to do over again, I would never be a teenage girl alone with an older man. At the…

#694 Arthur N. CS: 1,2,3,7

I grew up in the LDS Church, was baptized at 8, ordained a deacon at 12, teacher at 14, priest at 16, elder at 18, served a two-year mission starting…

#693 James K. CS: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8

I lived in Dallas, Texas in the early 1980s… I am almost 50 now. Like most normal boys, I was excited to find some “dirty magazines” when I was walking…

#692 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,4,6,7

I am so thankful that you are doing this. I hope the LDS Church takes action to stop these interviews. I grew up in Montana and my mother made me…

#691 Shannon. CS: 1,4,5,7,8,9

When I was 15, I went to confession with my LDS bishop in his office at the church. 😞 I told the Bishop I needed to confession to a hot…

#690 Malissa R. CS: 1,2,3,5,6,7,8,9

I was 11 years old when I was sent to live with mormon relatives. Because of my age I had to go through the missionary lessons in order to be…

#689 Jodi H-E. CS: 1,2,3,4,5. Other: I will never be able to quantify the damage

Another personal story for you and Sam Young as he Hunger Strikes to Protect LDS Children. This one is the hardest for me because I was complicit and bare the…

#687 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,5,7,8

When I was 11, my uncle (who was then in the bishopric) propositioned me for sex (I refused and got away, but didn’t tell anyone because he threatened my family)…

#686 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,6,7,8

This is something I posted to reddit a few years ago. I already had guilt and shame, the bishop made it worse. As a child, I was born into a…

#685 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,7,8

As a kid, like most kids, I masturbated. Even typing this story after years of therapy I just had to justify why I masturbated. Anyways, I felt horrible about myself…

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

I joined the church at 19 (and left at 30). When I was 18, so before I joined the church; I was sexually assaulted (anal rape) by a trusted male…

#683 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,5,7,8

When I was a member of the church at 12 years old, I was accused of masturbation by my parents and the bishop. I was only a deacon and had…

#682 Christian D. CS: 1,2,3,4,6,7,8

I discovered self-love at age 11. It was sorta an accident, but I really enjoyed it. I knew it must be wrong because my mother caught me once and we…

Search our Stories

Legend for Consequences Suffered (CS):

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this: