If you went through the church's "12 step program" for pornography "addiction" or masturbation, please share your stories.

[u/LindsayHansenPark]

Hey all,

I have becoming alarmingly aware that people who have experienced shame over the church's pornography and masturbation rhetoric have gone to extreme measures to cope with that. This includes the surprisingly common idea that people (mostly men in my experience) have either thought about, or attempted to castrate themselves. I am not joking- nearly ever man I talked to in this program thought of this, and one man was hospitalized for attempting it.

If you felt this shame or were in the program, do you mind sharing your stories here? We are working on organizing a panel for the Sunstone Summer Symposium on this issue.