He wrote how he realized it “made no sense” to continue wearing them since he was “having sex with men, which is a mortal sin against the Mormon church’s teachings.” “It’s been 12 years since I decided to stop wearing them,” Jacob wrote, referring to the Temple Undergarments, a special set of underwear worn by some believers of the Mormon religion.
A gay doctor with the body of a Greek god recalled the moment he stripped off his special Mormon underwear and walked away from the church in a moving Instagram post.ĭoctor Jake Jacob revealed to his 277,000 followers how the moment changed his perception of both his body and beliefs, and set him on a liberating path of self discovery.
