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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
To me and I'm not trying to be argumentative (even though I always am), if they had natural urges (bad choice of words I know) there would be a lot more hooker priest scandals, or priest woman scandals. In the day and age of sexual liberation through things like the internet and publications I never buy that they think there are no other choices.
Whether they believe that fleeing to the cloth will help them control their urges (Pedophilia) or they believe that going to the cloth will give them better access to their desires, or even worse that god and the church will forgive them and absolve them of their actions, I think that priesthood holds a powerfull attraction for predatory pedophiles.
I don't think allow priests to marry will ever curb that, sex drive is about more then just relief, if that was true we wouldn't need woman. We're driven to what attracts us the most.
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Originally Posted by habernac
Great points, Captain. But I would be curious to know if there's a big problem with this in churches that allow their priests to marry.
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I dunno, I tend to side with Habby on this. I think the fact that women are essentially considered forbidden so it may not be that they're so irresistably attracted to young children, and boys in particular, but rather that its more acceptable to do that and circumvent the rules they swore to adhere to.
Basically, in lieu of breaking their vow of chastity they just rationalize that boys dont count ergo they're not breaking the rules.
There would probably be a significantly lower amount of this happening.
The thing I find strange is the high concentration of pedophiles in the priesthood and the disturbingly larger concentration of homosexual pedophiles. There has to be a reason or arent those statistics strangely high in what would ordinarily be a very small section of people?