Warning: Sexually Explicit content.

Legend for Consequences Suffered (CS):

  1. Inappropriate shame and guilt
  2. Childhood self-loathing
  3. Adulthood self-loathing
  4. Normalizing children to sexual questions by adult men. (Grooming)
  5. Sexual abuse. (Pedophilia)
  6. Impaired sexual relations after marriage.
  7. Years of recovery from childhood shaming.  Often lasting decades.
  8. Suicide Ideation
  9. Attempted Suicide
  10. Suicide of a loved one or friend.

#919 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,5,6

My first recollection of being asked morality questions was for my 8th birthday baptismal interview-I didn’t even know what masturbation was and when the bishop probed me with more questions…

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#922 Name Withheld. CS: 1,4,7

I had never even heard of masturbation before my bishop asked me if I was doing it. I said I didn’t know what that was. He then explained to me…

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#923 Name Hidden. CS: 1,4

When I first went to get my bishop interview for the Temple Recommend, I was asked the usual questions such as, “Do you believe in the Church and it’s teachings?”,…

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#924 Name Hidden. CS: 1

All my life I had been taught about remaining non-sexually active until after marriage, and only then, I was only allowed to have intercourse with my wife. I saw this…

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#925 Diana W. CS: 1

I went through years of interviews. They were completely inappropriate. The last time i sat through an interview was when i was attending BYU and it was humiliating. I never…

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#927 Name Hidden. CS: 1,5,7

Last Sunday I could not raise my hand to sustain any callings. I have two reasons that I could not raise my hand. One reason is the stories on your…

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#928 Carl C. CS: 1,2,3,8,9,10

This is a story about one of my children whose life was impacted in a huge way due to explicit sexual worthiness questions by clergy. Growing up in the church,…

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#930 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,4,5

I was a recently baptized teenage convert, unfamiliar with the ways of the church. Invited to a Thursday youth activity night at my ward building, I was asked to meet…

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#931 Name Withheld. CS: 1

When I was 15 I went to youth conference that was a pioneer trek, it was awesome. While we were camping a boy in my group asked me to crawl…

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