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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.

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

At age 12, I was so excited to be ordained a deacon. The Bishop brought me into his office. I don’t remember anything from that interview except that he asked…

#397 R. Mark. CS: 1,2,3,4,6,7

Growing up in the church I was frequently asked about masturbation. The cumulative doctrine during my formative years was very clear that this was a sin of the highest severity.…

#396 Name Hidden. CS: 1,3,7,8,9. Other: Marrying abusive men

I was in Junior High, and struggling. I already didn’t believe in the church. Which put me at odds with my Dad. My sibling had an illegitimate baby, which brought…

#395 Alice D. CS: 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9

I was a hyper-sexual child who didn’t know the word masturbating until five or six years after I’d started having regular orgasms. I started cutting myself as I learned about…

#394 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,5,7

I was sexually abused as a primary sunbeam (age 4-5) by my primary teachers during sunday school lessons (a husband and wife). There was at least one other girl with…

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

My stake president wanted to meet with me in advance of going to the temple for baptisms for the dead. I’d known him my entire life and lived around the…

#392 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,5,7,8,9

As I have started to read the stories others have shared, I decided I should share mine. I grew up in a divorced household, primarily living with my mother. I…

#391 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,4

I was about 14 years old, I was forced to go to church by my mom. I decided to try and be more active and more involved. I wanted to…

#390 Name Hidden CS: 1

In the spring of 2012, the Stake President of the Winnipeg Canada Stake told us in the annual stake priesthood mtg. that “masturbation leads to murder”. God forbid there was…

#389 Joel B. CS: 1,2,3,6

I really don’t have a great sense of exactly how to communicate just how damaging these one on one bishop interviews involving sexual topics by untrained men with authority for…

#388 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,5

I want to spend a little time sharing my story. I do not want to give too many details but give readers a pretty good idea of what happened to…

#387 Name Hidden 1,2,3,4,7,8

I recognize my mother’s voice in another story here, so I think it’s time to share mine. When I was a child, I had a very zealous bishop who thoroughly,…

#386 Name Hidden. CS: 1,4

When I was 15 I slept with my boyfriend. It wasn’t until later that I realized I had done so because I didn’t feel like I could say no. Anyway,…

#385 Name Withheld CS: 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,10

I don’t think my story is anywhere near as hurtful and disturbing as others who have come forward. I offer my respect, love, and support to each of the brave…

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

When I was in my late teens, I was called into the Bishop’s office, out of the blue, and interrogated for over one and half hours, regarding sexual acts that…

#383 David. CS: 1,2,3,4,6

Those who read my story may well conclude that I have no business posting alongside those who have been subject to the horrors of sexual abuse and assault. My story…

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

My father was in church leadership as were all the males in my family dating back to Joseph Smith himself and are direct descendants of him. My maternal grandfather was…

#381 Jo T. CS: 1,2,3,5,8

It was summer and we had a large garden in Nothern California we shared with neighbors and ward members. My dad was a postman and money was always tight for…

#380 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,4,5,7

I honestly can’t say that I know exactly where it all began. The trouble is that the fond memories intertwine with the inappropriate and drawing that line to decipher between…

#379 Name Hidden. CS: 4

This is not a story about a mandated bishops interview. But it does show the nature of the naive Mormon mindset that just because someone is a bishop, they are…

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