Posted by:
Elder Berry
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Date: May 06, 2021 10:36AM
PapaKen Wrote:
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> But I did, of course, find out about the naked
> touching. To me, a closeted gay boy, it was kind
> of a kick to be touched intimately by a man in a
> religious setting, and to think that it was OK
> with God.
If you weren't coming from an abusive childhood I can see this being interesting from your perspective. A gay friend of mine wondered to me recently why he knew of many Mormon men who were gay as if the cult produced them. I don't know about that but the "crowning" ritual of initiation for Mormons has a homoerotic aspect but it just as well could be seen as a primitivistic animism ritual of psychological crisis.
"Turner and colleagues[74] mention a phenomenon called "shamanistic initiatory crisis", a rite of passage for shamans-to-be, commonly involving physical illness or psychological crisis. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamanism