❀ NEW! Hardcover ❀ shipped next day! ❀ extra goodies in every order! ❀ new books listed daily! Laake, a former member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), chronicles her experiences with Mormonism and the various rituals performed in their temples. Laake recounts her studies at Brigham Young University, her loveless first marriage at nineteen, her subsequent divorce and the problems she encountered with the Mormon authorities and her relatives due to her practice of masturbation. The book was particularly noted for its revelation of the details of the Mormon temple rituals of Endowment and Celestial marriage.[1][2][3][4] In the book, Laake claims that the pressures and sexual repression exerted by the church caused her to be ostracized and eventually hospitalized in a mental institution.

ISBN: 9780688093044