I am just interested in why there was/may have been an increase in clergy sexual activity in the current period because I am concerned about currently ignored victims/survivors of this period. I am also interested in this issue in the developing world. What cultural/systemic issues are we dealing with there? We've got to tackle this issue in a non-partisan way and one that will allow for the reality that as many wrongs have taken place under the banner of liberalism as there has been under conservatism, and as many of these issues are due to twisted individuals as twisted systems of thought. One of my bottom lines is that clergy sexual abuse doesn't happen because there are vulnerable individuals, it happens because there are clergy who abuse their position, individual clergy, and there are far too many others who turn a blind eye because so many of them are sexually active themselves. So, unwillingness to 'judge' others and the possibility also of blackmail exist as well. IMHO.