In that particular case, there is the massive problem of enforced celibacy. Suppress basic urges and they don't go away, but have a tendency to spill out sideways. Men who have been suppressing their sexual urges who spend a lot of time working with children... hmmm
I don't know.
because they're cheaper
They have to pay for prostitutes. In quite a few of these cases they were actually pimping the girls out.
This has got to be a big factor, clearly. For the rest, I think we'd have to ask them. One for the prison psychiatrist.
That also begs a question, though, one that I don't have a good answer to - how, exactly, does one become a paedophile?
you can either do an apprenticeship or there's an accelerated graduate scheme jointly administered by the church of england and the catholic church.
That's dodging the issue, though.
but you hear about an awful lot of paedophiles who don't seem to have gone nearer a child than downloading porn off the internet.
it tells you goldencitrone likes circles.
we are all potential murderers. you're not saying anything worth hearing here. but then that's nothing new.
I think most of us are potential murderers, tbh, given the right circumstances. I don't however think that most of us are potential rapists or paedophiles. So that comes back to the question - how did these men become what they are?
you should do something about your verbal diarrhoea because you're spouting shit at an ever-increasing rate.
In what sense are they paedophiles, anyway? Weren't these girls post-pubescent? They might be legally paedophiles if the girls are under the age of consent, but that's a very different thing, imo, from being someone who is attracted to prepubescent children.
more hebephiles than paedophiles, i'd say. but a rape gang's a rape gang in anyone's books.
Aha. A new word to me, and a very useful one.
Yes, there is. I could leave it at that. But, briefly: in the Church's view of children (and women), and in the specific circumstances of priesthood, and the availability of children (whether that's altar boys, or - historically - orphans, or - historically - the removed children of disgraced single mothers) to the minority in positions of power and trust who then abuse that power and trust. We can do this in more detail in another thread, and indeed we have done. And it has been the subject of studies, memoirs, literature, and so on. It needed to be. The specific cultural circumstances needed to be discussed. And still does, until it is properly addressed.
