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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.

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

After reading the stories that are on here the problems in my life now make sense. The constant feeling of shame that has been with me all my life for…

#340 Name Withheld CS: 2,3,7

First off I am a female, addicted to porn for around 10 years. It all started when I was 11 I got an email that had porn in it. I…

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

I wish I was brave enough to post my name, but my family is still unaware of my faith transition. I feel like a coward. My heart is beating rapidly…

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

I was born in the church and presented as a very devout, chaste and faithful girl my whole life. It wasn’t an act. For the most part, I really was.…

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

I grew up in a small town in Southern Utah. When I say small I mean about a 100 people small, give or take a few. Everyone in town was…

#336 Derek G. CS: 1,2,3,6,7,8

When I turned 12 I had a really cool bishop. During interviews he would basically say “I don’t want to know what you did just don’t do it again”. He…

#335 Name Hidden. CS: 1,3

I met my husband when I was 18. He is four years older than me and was a return missionary when we met at work. We became intimate and, after…

#334 Name Hidden. CS: 1,3,4

From the Bishop’s Perspective I had been serving as a Bishop for a few years when a 17 year old girl came to my office for a meeting that she…

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

When I was 18, I had my first sexual encounter with a boy. I was so scared to confess because I didn’t want my parents to find out, but eventually…

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

I don’t know if my story is typical, at least the later parts of it, but the beginning part I believe, is almost common in the church, at least among…

#331 Jodi B. CS: 1,2,3,6,7

I was lucky enough that my father was my Bishop during my formative teenage years so the damage and shame I received as a youth was from other people in…

#330 Kik G. CS: 1,2,3,4,7,8

On many more than one occasion, I was subjected to inappropriate interviewing that effected me even into my adulthood. From around the age of 12 to about age 19, I…

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

I should start with a little bit of history before going into detail about what happened to me between my years as a young child through to adulthood. I was…

#328 Name Hidden. CS: 1,4,6

As a child, I wish I had known about the grooming processes that sexual predators use. The way they gain a child’s trust, maybe even their parents’ trust, before attempting…

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

When I was a 12 year old I went to my father full of shame and confessed I had masturbated. His reaction led me down a path of intense self-loathing…

#326 Ashley B. CS: 1,3,8

I became pregnant as a teen. The father is LDS and made great efforts to not be involved. He sent church members to my home to harass me into giving…

#325 Craig S. CS: Other: Bishop falls in love

This is an odd story but it took me a while to connect the dots as to why I felt so passionate about signing the petition and wanting to march.…

#324 Name Hidden. CS: 1. Other: Sexual Harassment

The following isn’t an experience about a Bishop interview, but an Honor Code Office interview on the BYU-I campus. This is an LDS owned private university. These meetings should be…

#323 Sally T. CS: 1,2,3,4,6,7. Other: mis-information, or perhaps a blatant lie used to coerce???

I went through those highly emotional and impactive teen years, in the 70s. This was when our LGBTQ brothers and sisters were still in the closet. A time when much…

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

My nazi-TBM parents never gave me the birds and the bees talk. I was raised in an information vacuum that only included the church and nothing else. I knew nothing…

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