#116 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9
I have a lot of stories, but I would like to share the two most important ones. Shortly after turning 16, I had my first kiss. It was totally innocent…
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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.
#115 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,7
Beginning at the age of 12, I had annual interviews with my Mormon bishop. These were always one-on-one. The first time I was asked if I “Had any problems with…
#114 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,6,7,9
I was born and raised a Utah Mormon girl. I couldn’t have asked for better parents, or a better upbringing. I was always the easy child that never gave my…
#112 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,6,7,8
I grew up in the LDS Church, though I was not very active. I would meet often with the Bishop and have personal interviews with him, often about sexual matters.…
#111 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,6. Other: Strain on parental relationships
I remember when I was about to turn twelve. My friend’s dad was the bishop at the time. We grew up in downtown Salt Lake City, basically in Church headquarters.…
#110 Name Hidden. CS: 1,6,7
I pretty much lied about my masturbation habits. I felt pretty crappy about myself all growing up because not only was I “sexually impure”, but I was also a liar.…
#109 Name Hidden. CS: Other: Stress and anxiety over children being subject to this practice
I wasn’t affected (that I know of) by being asked these questions as a youth or as an adult. But my heart was touched by hearing the many troubles that…
#108 Name Hidden. CS: 1
This story is as an adult, but my last bishop asked wildly inappropriate questions to me during an interview. I felt sexually harassed, despite knowing that he had no right,…
#107 Name Hidden. CS: 1,8,9
After having to switch to a different bishop, (the Bishopric was changed in the middle of my mission interviewing process), I showed up to a meeting where the new bishop…
#106 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3
I suffered needlessly for many years through a cycle of shame and guilt for what was normal behavior, but I was made to believe I was largely alone in, and…
#105 Travis G. CS: 1,2,3,4,6,7. Other: false and insufficient sexual education
I was born and raised in an LDS home where both parents served LDS Missions. I learned at a very early age that my parents disagreed about LDS Doctrine, and…
#104 Jacob F. CS: 1,2
My childhood bishop asked me if I masturbated. I said no and he stared at me for a good 15-20 seconds in silence. It was very awkward and I felt…
#103 Name Hidden. CS: 1
I learned of this practice when my son who is now 39 was asked a question about masturbation during his 16th birthday interview. This was his interview to be ordained…
#102 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,6,7
I was a high school student wanting to go to BYU. As part of the admissions process I had to obtain an ecclesiastic endorsement from my stake president. In my…
#101 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,7,8. Other: Eating Disorder
When I was a young child, I explored my body and quite by accident found something that felt good. I didn’t really think anything of it, and it became part…
#100 Scott D. CS: 1,2,3,4
As I was preparing to serve a mission, it was very important to me to be honest in my interviews with my bishop. I did not think I would be…
#99 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,7
Until my worthiness interview prior to becoming a priest at age 16, my father had never so much as mentioned the word “masturbation” to me. But then my father became…
#97 Name Hidden. CS: 1,3,4,6,7,8
When I was 18 I had my first boyfriend. We went what I thought at the time was ‘too far’ one night and I felt soo guilty. I had been…
#96 Bryce B. CS: 1,2,3,4,7,8,9, Other: impaired sexual relations (I have never been married), hating myself for being gay
Growing up a gay Mormon child is really difficult. The first person I came out to was my bishop, a man from our neighborhood whose house I played at when…
#95 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,8,9
My story didn’t start in the Latter-Day Saint church though it did end that way. It started soon after my 9th birthday. As a newly baptised child with a convert…