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Thread #164703   Message #3966005
Posted By: Big Al Whittle
12-Dec-18 - 09:56 PM
Thread Name: BS: Clerical abuse of kids: More Revelations
Subject: RE: BS: Clerical abuse of kids: More Revelations
'Does sex with children happen more often in churches or among clergy?'

Theres a tendency to look where the light is.

One of my oldest friends was in the Quaker Friends Ambulance Corps in World War 2. No longer with us. But he told me that in the arab countries where he served, many families had fairly relaxed attitude to what we would call paedophilia.

He was in this home, fairly ordinary arab family home - and old Grandad came in and started playing with the little kid's balls. It seemed to be acceptable behaviour.

I dunno - but it seems to be a strain within people.
Perhaps some of the trauma victims experience is from our unrelaxed attitude.

I've gotten old. I don't know anything about anything any more. My Dad was a cop and used to stake out the bogs in the park arresting people presumably trying to sort out some sort of sex life. I've seen changes in attitudes to sexuality so profound in my lifetime.

I can't even begin to guess what will be 'normal' in a few years time.