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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.

#422 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9. Other: Self-harm

This is very difficult so I’ll make it short. I was damaged quite badly by the shame I felt for so called sins and transgressions. I feel like I was…

#421 Kylie S. CS: 1,2,3,4,6,8

I was fortunate to have the leaders that I did, they always treated me with respect. However, I did suffer from self-loathing and unnecessary shame due to the culture of…

#420 Michael S. CS: 1,2,3,4,6,7, Other: Disbelief in the “church”

I was a young adult during the time in which the internet and online porn were becoming popular. It seemed that every Sunday or General Conference was filled with endless…

#419 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3

When I was 16 I told my mia-maid leader that I had sex and had smoked marijuana. I expected her to keep it private but she told me she would…

#418 Sadie J. CS: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9

I was molested at a very young age by a family friend. Then, I was molested again by another family friend from the time I was 11 to around 15…

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

I’ll never understand why my parents thought it was a good idea or allowed me to stay overnight with a 60 year old (approx.), single man who recently immigrated to…

#416 Adam B. CS: 1,2,3,7, Other: Actual pain in my body went thinking about sexual shame.

Growing up I was taught in church that masturbation was the most vile and nasty thing and no one did it except really bad people, at least that is the…

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

When I was 19 (10 years ago) I talked to my Bishop week after week repenting for pre marital sex. He asked for details, positions, what birth control was used,…

#414 Name Hidden. CS: Other: Forty years of suffering legit diagnosed-PTSD

When you are an #LDS girl alone in a room with a #Mormon Priesthood leader man who gets an erection then makes his advance by pressing his erection against you,…

#413 Name Hidden. CS: 1,3,7,8

My first bishop interview about masturbation happened when I was 14 in 1984. I did not know what that was at the time. I had 3 more interviews about masturbation…

#412 Name Hidden. CS: 1,8

I am currently a member of the LDS church. Growing up I had many great leaders in the church that taught me a lot of good. I can’t imagine how…

#410 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,5,6,7,8

I was sexualized when I was 14 by an adult female, “Helen”. She was in her mid-20s. At the same time I was also given drugs——not a soft drug, like…

#409 Name Hidden. CS: 1,4

I was a teenager in the LDS church in the late 70s and 80s. My parents never had “the talk” with me or told me anything about human sexuality. We…

#408 Name Withheld. CS: 1,2,3,4,6,7,8

My mother was inactive LDS growing up. My dad was of another faith. I didn’t go to church often, but would at times go play basketball with neighborhood friends who…

#407 Michael D. CS: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8

I’ve written about a hundred pages worth of material trying to figure out what I want to say and get it down to something less than a thousand words. This…

#406 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3

When I was 16, I was sure I was in love with my boyfriend. Evenings were spent cuddling watching tv. As often happens the line kept being crossed, just a…

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

My mother taught me that it was wrong to touch my private parts. I was afraid to sin and was very careful not to ever touch myself, even as a…

#404 Michelle. CS: 1,2,3,4,6,7,8

As a young 13 year old girl, this was a very uncomfortable, if not traumatizing situation for me speaking to an older man about my sexual “transgressions.” This, in combination…

#403 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8

There was a time a little girl was happy, at least she tried to pretend she was, because she did not know what was going on.

#402 Name Hidden. CS: 2,3,5,6,7

I was sexually abused by an uncle when I was three. He made me touch his penis. We were in the same ward growing up and he was later called…

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