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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.

#623 Name Withheld. CS 1,2,3,4,7,8

I began masturbating without knowing what it was. When I realized I felt afraid and guilty, feeling I’d done the worst thing save murder. A few months later, at age…

#622 Katharine M. CS: 1,3,4,5,7,8,9

I. I was born into an LDS family. Throughout my childhood and youth, my father served in major positions of leadership, respect and trust, including bishop, stake high councilman, branch…

#621 Jessalynn S. CS: 1,2,3,4,7,8,9

The other day, I found myself reading through the journal entries I’d written both before and after I was formally disfellowshipped from the Church. I was disfellowshipped when I was…

#620 Name Hidden. CS 1,2,3,6

I’ve slept on this, and woken up just livid about it, because I’ve had to relive it through discussions with people who won’t listen to victims. I’m livid at the…

#619 Name Hidden. CS: 1,4,5

Me and my girlfriend at the time, started to experiment with each other and use to touch each others private parts. This went on for a few months. The guilt…

#618 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,10

There’s nothing quite like trying to be the best child of God you can be – praying fervently, loving scripture study, always lending a hand to fellow brothers and sisters…

#617 Name Hidden CS: 1,3

When I was 18 and a student at BYU, I was dating an older man that was in my ward. I was not sexually knowledgeable due to my upbringing. The…

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

I was 13 years old when a boy told me that his bishop had told him to “not associate with someone like me” . My neighbor who was my age…

#615 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,8,9

I was 14 and in an interview with the bishop, a trusted neighbor from up the street, when I first felt violated. I watched his eyes shift from my face…

#614 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,6

I was 10 the first time my parents made me go confess masturbation to the bishop. Ten years old! They told me that sexual sin was 2nd only to murder,…

#613 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,7,8,9

First off, thank you…thank you! Years of shame, guilt, self loathing and gender confusion because of what I endured. When it first began….I was called into the bishop’s office out…

#612 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,6,7

I was a 15-year-old cheerleader when I was called into the bishop’s office for making out with my boyfriend. The bishop, a 50-something real estate agent, asked me to go…

#611 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,8

When I was in preschool, several kids and I used to play a game called “show me your bare bumb”. It was a secret game we played with each other…

#610 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,7,8,9

I was sixteen and excited to date. I dated a boy who wanted to get physically close, but I said no. He raped me repeatedly the day before we went…

#609 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,6,7,8

I am so scared to tell my story because of the backlash I could receive from family members who may read this so I have decided to share it to…

#608 Name Hidden. CS: 1,3,4,7

My family and I joined the church when I was 12. I had to have an interview with the bishop for a temple recommend to get sealed with my parents.…

#607 Name Hidden. CS: 1,6,7

I remember meeting with my bishop at 14. He had me describe the sexual acts I’d shared with my boyfriend. I didn’t even have the words for some of the…

#606 Name Hidden. CS: 1,6. Other: Spouse lost testimony of the gospel of Jesus Christ, and marriage was destroyed

I was an active divorced LDS member, in love with a man who had converted, been baptised and had his temple recommend in hand when he proposed marriage for all…

#605 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,6,7,8

For years I was asked sexually explicit questions by grown men who held positions of power and authority over me. I was raised that way. I thought it was normal.…

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

Wow, where do I start? In 1985 when I was 22, I was raped and assaulted with a knife and almost killed in my apartment, by a stranger. I escaped…

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