Many folks who abuse try to confess in semidirect or roundabout ways. They pick victims partly because they know the victims will either or have a hard time telling or being believed.
Ted Bundy is a case in point
Same now-so was the expert in their thinking back several decades ago.Thevdefense mechanism of undoing plays a role here as does all that we know if trauma and the sometimes life long inability to speak both for those who offend and the victims. Alsoo sime folks have both issues.
The science and research has been out there for along long time.
And one question in thie multiple circles of patriarchal is-
How do we parent males?
What is and what has been the source of male need for control and power in all things?