• The_Vampire@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Actual Ex-Mormon who attended BYU here: Soaking was never a thing, I have only ever heard about it on the internet or literally in the context of Mormons laughing about non-Mormons believing in Mormons doing such things (yeah, they’re meta about it).

    What is an actual thing is Mormons getting married super early (for a multitude of reasons, one being the horny). Easily over 70% of the students I knew were married by the time they were seniors in college.

    • ExLisper@linux.community
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      10 months ago

      Sorry to break it to you but I also attented BYU and soaking was totally a thing, we just never invited you.

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      10 months ago

      I can’t confirm or deny your claims about soaking, because I never went to BYU.

      However, I did live in a smallish town in Utah for a year, and I can confirm I saw more married and pregnant 18 year old teens in that one year than I’ve seen in the entire rest of my life.