#241 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,7,8
My (now adult) son suffered public shaming as a teenager because he was honest in his interviews with the bishop when asked if he masturbated. Numerous times after being ordained…
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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.
#240 Name Hidden. CS: 1,3
I wasn’t a child when this happened, but I was still an impressionable, self-conscious young woman of 20. Starting a new semester at BYU, I was required to get an…
#239 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7
I am only sharing this anonymously because there are other innocent parties involved from whom I have not received permission to share this story publicly. I wish I could. I…
#238 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7
When thinking about my baptism, I remember a few things about that day, but there is one huge thing I think about that day. Guilt. Down right guilt. That’s all…
#237 Carter S. CS: 1,5,8,9,10
Attempted suicide multiple times as if you lust its as if you’ve already done it. and if a man lays with another man you are condemned. I was taught that…
#236 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,7,8. Other: Extreme anxiety
My story is nothing special. I didn’t look at pornography in my teens, but I woke up from a wet dream when I was 13 and reproduced it in the…
#235 Heather S. CS: 1,2,3,4,6,7,8. Other: Belief that sex of any kind is vile and evil.
Story #2. I was in 8th grade (13) when I had my first ecclesiastical interview. My uncle & his family had come from Seattle to do temple work, & he…
#234 Carrie. CS: 1,2,3,7,8,9
The story that has impacted my life the most is my husband’s story. He and I met when he was 28 (I was 25) and it was basically love at…
#233 Austin B. CS: 1,3,6,7,8
I looked at pornography in high school. My dad got a confession out of me by lying to me and saying that he would drive me to mutual but instead…
#232 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,7,8
My bishop asked me if I engaged in masturbation when I was about 12-13. He told me I can’t have the spirit with me if I don’t confess. I denied…
#231 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2
When I turned 12 I had my first interview with the bishop so I could become a deacon. He asked if I masturbated. I had never heard that word spoken…
#230 Heather S. CS: 1,2,3,4,7,8. Other: Belief that sex is evil & next only to murder and that if sexual touch felt good in any way, that meant I was evil.
Trigger Warning: child sex abuse. This is about church teachings being used by my abuser. I grew up in a small Mormon town and was an innocent and naive child.…
#229 Sara F. CS: 1,2,3,7,8,9
When I was 17 I slipped with my older boyfriend. I told my parents what had happened and they told me it was bad enough I needed to confess to…
#228 Name Hidden. CS: 1,3,4,7. Other: Sexual self indentity..
I hesitate to relate this history, to talk explicitly about matters of a sexual nature, but am compelled to do so because church leaders did not hesitate to invade my…
#227 Alan H. CS: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
One of my first interviews that I can remember happened when I was 12. I felt fine about meeting the bishop. He asked me if I obeyed the law of…
#226 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,7
I was fifteen lost my virginity to my boyfriend. I felt terrible about attempted baptism for the dead when others work so hard for a temple recommend so I confessed…
#225 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,6,7
When I was in high school, I had a serious boyfriend. After about a year of dating, we mutually decided to have sex. Many months passed and my bf felt…
#224 Robin D. CS: 1,2,3,4,7,8
This practice destroyed my self-esteem, caused me to experience nearly relentless anxiety from age 8 on and led me to take desperate actions to “fix” myself of normal adolescent behavior…
#223 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,5,7,8
I want to start by saying I am an active member of the church. I debated about sharing this, because all of the people involved with one exception are good…
#222 Name Hidden. CS: 1,3,4,8
At twenty, I was depressed and hadn’t taken the sacrament since moving out of my dad and stepmom’s house 2 years earlier. I was sexually abused by my stepdad when…