#301 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,8
Like most teenagers, I masturbated. During a worthiness interview, I was asked if I had masturbated. I was honest and admitted that I had. I don’t remember the details of…
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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.
#300 Carol. CS: 1,2,3,4,6,7
I did not realize until I started typing how difficult this might be to share. I am flooded with so many emotions. I grew up in a very devout Mormon…
#299 Name Withheld. CS: 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9
I was a 14 year old child. I was raped. Had just had a lesson on “virtue”, the week before. I was so traumatized. I didn’t tell my parents because…
#298 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,8
My childhood bishop was a good man. I write this story not to blame him but to blame the system that would put an untrained man in a room with…
#297 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,6,7
I have many stories of shame from the Mormon Church. But one that sticks out, and pertains to this issue is this: I grew up in a prominent SLC Mormon…
#296 Name Hidden. CS: 1,3,4
Long stories made short are the best when you’re still healing from the traumatic consequences you incurred. My first real boyfriend at the age of 21 was a priesthood holder.…
#295 Name Withheld. CS: 1,2,6,8
When I was 4-8 years old I was molested by a neighbor kid. I remember being sick to my stomach, afraid to fall asleep at night for fear that I…
#294 Name Hidden. CS: 4
20-ish years ago, in the seventh grade, I had a history teacher. He was single, in his late 30s, and he was very interested in having kids come swim at…
#293 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,6. Other: Attempted self-mutilation
I was lucky, like some others here were, that my bishops were never lascivious men asking too-personal questions. The self-hate and attempted self harm I blame firmly on my parents…
#292 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,7,8
When I was 7 or 8 years old I was molested by an older neighborhood boy as well as a babysitter. As I grew up and learned at church concepts…
#291 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,6,7,8,9. Other: Self-harm
As far as I can remember, I was attracted to other boys – at least since age 6 – but I had no idea it was sexuality, let alone homosexuality.…
#290 Name Hidden. CS: 1,5,6,7
I grew up in Australia, where members from the USA, and especially Utah were highly regarded, honored, and looked up to in my childhood Ward. When I was 14, and…
#289 Name Hidden. CS: 1,4
When I was 12, I went in for my first Bishop interview. When it got to the part about chastity he asked me if I masterbated. I had no idea…
#288 Name Hidden CS: 1,7
After being raped at 15. I felt like I was in the deepest darkest hell you can imagine. I talked to my bishop who said “why were you out with…
#287 Name Withheld. CS: 1,2,4,7,8
When I was 13, I was a very devoted little Mormon girl. I prayed every day, read my scriptures, dressed modestly, and got good grades. One day, I was thinking…
#286 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,7,8
My story isn’t much different than the hundreds if not thousands that have already been told, with one big exception. I am a 60 year old male. I was born…
#285 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,6,7,8. Other: Feeling guilty after being raped as an Adult
As a teenager my parents found out that I was having relations with my boyfriend and forced me to see the bishop to confess my “sins”. I find it interesting…
#284 Jens A. CS: 1,2,3,4,5,7,8
“When I was 7 and my little brother was 4 we were molested by an “upstanding” male church member who was recommended to babysit us by other church members including…
#283 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4
I grew up in an inactive household. I was still baptized at eight. Never having been to church before or after that until the age of fourteen. I naturally discovered…
#282 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,7
My experience with “confessing” to my bishop at an interview came in teens. I was 16 years old. I wasn’t a child, but it affected my life and who I…