#45 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3
I always had to report to my bishop growing up if/how often I masturbated or looked at porn. It was always degrading, and left me with a ton of guilt.…
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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.
#44 Name Hidden. CS: 1,7. Other: Nightmares, shame, rejection
This is the story of my two children. One MIA night, my son, 17 and my daughter 14, were called into the bishop’s office separately. This couldn’t have been a…
#42 Name Hidden. CS: Other: Very strained marriage. My children & I have left the church.
When my oldest son was approaching his 12th birthday, he came to me and told me he didn’t want to be interviewed by the bishop without me, his mom, in…
#39 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,6,7,8 Other: Ideation about self-mutilation
On average, from age 5 to 28, I considered suicide and/or self-mutilation roughly once a week, in part because I was subjected to these interviews. I encountered some of the…
#36 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,6,7. Other: Fear of the Second Coming occurring before I could confess and being cast down to hell
I confessed to the bishop that I had been masturbating when I was 15 years old. His response was that he “didn’t know girls could do that,” and that there…
#29 Jason L. CS: 1,2,3,7, Other: Thoughts of self genital mutilation
I was asked by my bishop at age 12 about masturbation. Every priesthood advancement and youth calling interview following I was asked about masturbation.