{"id":456,"date":"2011-05-19T09:08:26","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T15:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/?p=456"},"modified":"2011-05-19T09:17:50","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T15:17:50","slug":"john-jay-report-or-rock-and-roll-made-me-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/john-jay-report-or-rock-and-roll-made-me-do-it-456.htm","title":{"rendered":"John Jay Report or Rock and Roll Made Me Do It"},"content":{"rendered":"

I will comment on the John Jay Report more after I get back from a therapeutic river trip down the San Juan.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The report in correct that the cases of reported <\/strong>abuse following a bell curve. The unknown questions is whether there are unreported cases, especially form the 1950s. Victims may have died\u00a0 <\/span>and files should have been purged. See the graphs at Catholic Sensibility<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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However, it seems there was a real increase in the 1960s. It is perhaps understandable that priests may have experimented sexually, but why were so many priests sexually involved with children? 60% of the reported victims were 13 and under. And why were 83% of the victims boys? The report said that priests had more access to boys. But priests have a lot of access to young women \u2013 the congregations are mostly women, \u00a0<\/span>2\/3 or more of penitents are women, and solicitation in the confessional has been a centuries-old problem in the Church. If priests wanted to experiment sexually, there were plenty of women available.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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So why did they prefer children? I think that not so much sexual pleasure as the pleasure of violation and sacrilege was the goal of the abusive priests. The Marquis de Sade has explained the attraction.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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And why boys? Perhaps because were available and don\u2019t get pregnant. Perhaps because they were the same sex as Jesus. But I think that the report had decided it would not blame homosexuality in any way, homosexuals, especially in the Church, being a protected class.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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From reading hundreds of cases I think that many abusive priests were immature homosexuals who were themselves frozen in adolescence, and that is why they were attracted to pubescent and pre-pubescent boys. Also, there are few young men available in church, and those might well react violently to sexual overtures.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The priesthood is becoming a gay profession, and abuse of minors is declining. I think that the few men, including homosexual men, who are entering the priesthood are doing it at a later age and are more mature. They have decided ( I hope) to accept being celibate and chaste, whatever their sexual orientation.. However, a largely and obviously gay clergy (even if chaste) will\u00a0 <\/span>be a further obstacle in reconnecting men to the Church.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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I will comment on the John Jay Report more after I get back from a therapeutic river trip down the San Juan. \u00a0 The report in correct that the cases of reported abuse following a bell curve. The unknown questions is whether there are unreported cases, especially form the 1950s. Victims may have died\u00a0 and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,113],"tags":[85,301],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clergy-sex-abuse","category-homosexuality","tag-clergy-sexual-abuse","tag-john-jay-report","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}