#633 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,7,8,9
When I was in 5th or 6th grade, I had accidentally stumbled upon porn on the internet. I didn’t know what it was. I knew it was bad for me…
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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.
#634 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,7,8,9
My daughter has been participating in intensive treatment and therapy for PTSD following years of childhood trauma, resulting from living in the battlefield that was our home. She witnessed abuse,…
#635 Name Withheld. CS: Other: No consequences. But both my daughter and I remember the incident to this very day. (27 years later)
My daughter, who was 14 years old at the time, went to the bishop so she could get her temple recommend. She was going to the temple to be baptized…
#636 Name Hidden. CS: 5. Other: Inappropriate attitudes surrounding sexual assult
This is a second hand story. Years ago, there was an older teenage boy, 17-19 that was having a sexual relationship with a 13 year old girl in the same…
#637 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,4
When I was 14 I gave another boy in my ward oral sex. I wasn’t planning on confessing and was just going to move on from it. The boy apparently…
#638 Name Hidden. CS: 1,3,6,8
I first joined the church at 19, at this time I was suffering from depression and anxiety and even though I hadn’t had all of the missionary lessons – due…
#639 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,6,7,8. Other: Attempted Self Mutilation
From when I was twelve onward, I was asked by my bishop in semi annual interviews sexual questions. He asked me, from when I was 12, if I engaged in…
#640 Bart P. CS: 1,2,3,4,7
I discovered masturbation at age 5. I did not know it was a “sin” until my mother had caught me. Ever after she would try to catch me in the…
#641 Name Hidden. CS: 1,3. Other: No advancement in church
My son is an excellent, intelligent young man. Completely virtuous in every way. He wanted to serve a mission. The Bishop kept drilling him about pornography. He had never viewed…
#642 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
Hi Sam! I saw your Facebook feed months ago, and it intrigued me. As I was reading about your cause, my heart was so saddened, not only for the victims…
#643 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,7
As a youth, there were very few times that I got free of the shame, guilt, and self loathing that accompanied worthiness interviews. Before my mission, I thought I cleared…
#644 CS: Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,7,8
Self loathing is a good basis here. Starting adult life with the mindset that hating yourself is healthy and righteous messed me up. I’ve since learned that I am worth…
#645 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,6,7,8
I was born/ raised in the church, and growing up I took my religion very seriously. I was attending a Young Single Adult Ward, and I’d been carrying around tremendous…
#646 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7
My three sisters and I were abused by my mom’s Mormon best friends sons for many years. When the abuse was discovered, our mother shamed us into KNOWING that it…
#647 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,6,7,8,9
I was raped by a stake president’s son when I was 14 (in 1994). The bishop did not let my mother come into the interview she arranged (which she did…
#648 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,6,7,8,9,10. Other: Mental Illness
It has taken a lot of thought and courage for me to even begin to share my experience. I have only ever shared the consequences I have suffered as a…
#649 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,7
I grew up in Utah and went to a pediatrician named Glen C. Griffen who had authored numerous books about maturation and sexual development published by LDS publishers which I…
#650 Name Hidden. CS: 1,3,6
My mission president’s monthly interviews with sister missionaries in my mission were emotionally abusive and left me spiritually debilitated and suspicious of all priesthood leadership and closed-door interviews. Our president…
#651 Christi J. CS: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7. Other: Complex PTSD, Inexplicable Nightmares, Lack of Trust
Approximately 50 years ago, I was molested and raped as a young girl in a small Mormon farming community in SE Idaho. It has taken years for me to realize…
#652 Name Withheld. CS: 3,7,8
In college, my boyfriend and I started experimenting sexually and I never felt guilty about it, but I knew that I should probably go talk to my bishop. While my…