Posted by:
elderolddog
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Date: November 19, 2019 07:16PM
My formative years were spent trying to be a good mormon. Some parts were easy, like not drinking and not smoking. And, believe it or not, not wanting to dishonor her, I stopped short of having sex, because of mormonism. I graduated from high school a virgin and I counted that as a real accomplishment. I even got through my first year after high school a virgin.
If she'd been mormon, I probably would not have had my first adventure to two-person sex. And apparently the bishop was thinking along the same lines, because when I 'confessed' to my fallen condition, that was about the first thing he asked, "Was she mormon?" When I said she wasn't, things went very smoothly from that point on. Six months in purgatory, then off to the mission field.
But having learned to excel at masturbation, I was destined for, at best, the lower Terrestrial kingdom. But I can remember thinking that with a good attitude, I still might be useful as heavenly infantry should the need arise.
Without mormonism I think I would have been a very wild child and come to a bad end, as some of my older cousins did.
And you know what difference I can see, apart from mormonism? The role of the parents. Maybe it's way too gross a distinction, but strong parental influence, as in being interested in what the kids are up to, seems to have made a difference. In my case, I think the church, through the good people in my ward, took on that role.