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Warning: Sexually Explicit content.

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.

#50 Katie J. CS: 1,2,3

I was not asked inappropriate questions by bishops/counselors, but I still suffered incredible guilt and self-loathing because of the general process of worthiness interviews. I was terrified by the prospect…

#49 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,5,6,7. Other: Intentional Self Harm

I first experienced orgasm as an 8 year old girl, at the hands of a teacher. I didn’t understand the sensation I had felt nor had I wanted it. It…

#48 Name Hidden. CS: 1,7. Other: Prolonged medical issues

So in light of the current trend, here is one of my stories. This is not necessarily a story of abuse per se, but of my paranoia to be worthy…

#47 Name Hidden. CS: 1

When I was in high school, we had a bishop who was also one of our high school teachers in my small home town. When this bishop would bring me…

#46 Dave S. CS: 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,10

I’ve lived with decades of shame, guilt and anxiety due to dozens of private worthiness meetings with LDS leaders when I was as young as eleven years old. The questions…

#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.…

#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…

#43 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,8

I began masturbating around 10 years old. The guilt started around that time. As my 12th birthday got closer and I started thinking about my interviews to become a deacon,…

#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…

#41 Name Hidden. CS: 1,3,8

My duration at the Provo MTC was from September through November of 2008. Each and every day there were lessons, videos, talks, activities, and speakers which all focused on personal…

#40 Name Hidden. CS: 1

I have a few but the one that was directed towards me was when it was my birthday interview. The bishop asked basic questions like how’s school, how family, anything…

#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…

#38b Name Hidden CS: 1,2,4,7,8

What a terrible policy that needs to be changed- These specific questions have caused me so much unneeded stress and anxiety because what kind of 13 year old wants to…

#38a Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,6,7 Other: Depression

As a teen and as a young woman in college I was asked by the Bishop about whether or not I masturbated. The discussion with my college Bishop kept me…

#37 Name Hidden. CS: 1

When I was in Young Women’s, I was being interviewed to get my temple recommend and I felt that I wasn’t worthy because I had been looking at pornographic images.…

#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…

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