The Mormon Bedroom

[falafel]

Please stick with the factory euphemism. Your use of the M word makes me uncomfortable.

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[creekster]

A thread called the Mormon Bedroom has pages of posts about little factories. Nice.

[Sleeping in EQ]

I don't remember the talk, but I don't really remember any GC talk as a youth. I was usually bored to death in priesthood session and was counting the minutes until we could head to JBs to eat from their ice cream bar.


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I have so done this.

[byu71]

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Any honest articles on men self gratifying themselves should also have the warning that these men could go blind.

That's why joining a circle jerk can be dangerous. It can cause a bunch of men thinking alike becoming unable to see things clearly.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

I turned 12 in 1990 and I think you're right. Strength of Youth is the only pamphlet I remember.

You and I were the same age. I only became aware of the factory on my mission, where every apartment was loaded with the pamphlet. I had one companion who thought it was a great thing to slip into tracting discussions. I just thought he was a weird dude, but it turns out upon returning to an apartment we had given one of the pamphlets out to the guy probably in his early 40s who a few days previous had accepted the pamphlet and listened to a 5 minute doorstep approach looked him right in the eye and said "you really came to my house and gave me an anti-jerking off flyer?". I couldn't hold it in and just started laughing hysterically. I'll never forget his face as we were leaving looking at me saying "that's what the factory is? Did you know?"

[Commando]

You and I were the same age. I only became aware of the factory on my mission, where every apartment was loaded with the pamphlet. I had one companion who thought it was a great thing to slip into tracting discussions. I just thought he was a weird dude, but it turns out upon returning to an apartment we had given one of the pamphlets out to the guy probably in his early 40s who a few days previous had accepted the pamphlet and listened to a 5 minute doorstep approach looked him right in the eye and said "you really came to my house and gave me an anti-jerking off flyer?". I couldn't hold it in and just started laughing hysterically. I'll never forget his face as we were leaving looking at me saying "that's what the factory is? Did you know?"

I would genuinely like to hear his interpretation of what he thought it meant.



*subquestion* Why would he think that'd make an effective proselyting tract -- regardless of what he thought it meant?

[falafel]

One day they will make a movie version of HFN's mission experiences. They could call it the Other Other Side Of Heaven.

[jay santos]

I don't remember the GC talk, but I do remember the pamphlet. My dad, instead of giving me "the talk", said something awkward like "umm errr your body's about to change and you're going to feel some powerful feelings, umm errr, read this." And gave me the pamphlet and was gone. I had a very hard time understanding the pamphlet, but I knew it was a big deal by how nervous he was.

[Dwight Schr-ute]

You and I were the same age.

Sort of curious what happened here.

[byu71]

I don't remember the GC talk, but I do remember the pamphlet. My dad, instead of giving me "the talk", said something awkward like "umm errr your body's about to change and you're going to feel some powerful feelings, umm errr, read this." And gave me the pamphlet and was gone. I had a very hard time understanding the pamphlet, but I knew it was a big deal by how nervous he was.

My cousin taught me about the factory by telling me he wanted to show me something cool. Shortly after the start of the demo I walked out feeling like I wanted to vomit.

I am greatful to him for one reason. My dad wimped out and sent me to Mom for the "talk". I told her I was 15 and she was too late and I didn't want to discuss the subject of sex with her. I guess Dad wasn't the only one who didn't want to talk about it, she said OK and we went back to the subject of the cigarettes they found in my pocket a month prior.

[Commando]

[Green Monstah]

I got the little factory pamphlet, and so did every other young man in my ward. Those of you who never heard of it, it might have fallen out of favor by the 90's.

It was given to my priest's quorum in the mid-90s.

[Lost Student]

Sort of curious what happened here.

It's a Mitch Hedberg thing.

[Applejack]

My cousin taught me about the factory by telling me he wanted to show me something cool. Shortly after the start of the demo I walked out feeling like I wanted to vomit.

[Soccermom]

I had never heard the little factory explanation in my life until I started reading CS. I think I first read a comment about it from the poster who seems very interested in people operating their own factories without guilt.