Hi :)

I’m a user on this instance and also mod of a community on this instance about atheistic/nonthesitic Satanism. We are not CoS, nor TST, we are called Global Order of Satan (link is in my profile). Many of our members across the world are lgbtqia+ , possibly even a majority but we don’t really keep formalised records so its hard to say for sure.

Our UK Order (of whom I am a member) are looking into starting a campaign into the religion based abuse of conversion therapy. Obviously we knew it happened but we weren’t aware things like exorcism were used and this clearly falls within our, uh, areas of interest!

This is a delicate subject and I have no wish to trigger anyone but if anyone wanted to share (anonymised) experiences they may have had with religion-based conversion ‘therapy’ (I keep using scarequotes as its clearly pseudoscience) via DM with me, they would be very helpful in giving us some background. If you are not happy with DMing then I am also on Matrix (links also in bio) or you can mail me leraje gosatan com - you can get free anonymous email forwarding here

Edit: Anonymous cryptpad form here - Markdown keeps killing the link. you’ll need to copy/paste this: https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/SqtKYw8b2pa%20a4u2EU0OFN9-6l5E3qGVSt9r6-U%20XQo/

  • We also suggest using cryptpad (flagship instance is https://cryptpad.fr/). To make a form which people can fill out. Cryptpad has zero knowledge encryption meaning those who own/run the server cannot see the data. It would probably be a better solution than asking people to reach out personally.

    A note, when sharing any document make sure you use the share button and not the URL as the URL is admin access, plus the share button allows you to control access further. Also, we suggest signing up (at least for the form maker) as otherwise all the information will be gone after a few days.

    A personal note: We love it because it requires no email address etc to sign up, just a username.