Predict the percentage of Catholic clergy who are paedophiles

[Sava]

You have better self control than I do. I would burn that ****ers face off in an instant. And illegality isn't stopping me. Lack of opportunity is.

[DaShi]

I agree that you aren't the only one; there are estimates that 1.2% of the American population shows signs of potential psychopathy.

[MOBIUS]

To be fair, in Ben's case, he probably does see about 2% of history teachers being pedophiles.

In Ben's case, in a sample of one, being himself. The answer is 100%

Is it any wonder he hasn't been with a woman yet...

[Dr Strangelove]

I can't be the only one who wants to splash Justin Bieber in the face with a pot full of boiling transmission fluid, and it's the fact that it's illegal that's stopping me. Similarly, there are probably a lot of pedophiles who are dissuaded by the threat of going to prison. We'll never be able to know how many.

Flash pictures of smiling kids in seductive poses in front of them and measure the reaction of their irises.

[Dr Strangelove]

I agree that you aren't the only one; there are estimates that 1.2% of the American population shows signs of potential psychopathy.

Tut tut, all people are psychopathic to some degree. Have you learned nothing from history?

[MOBIUS]

You should read The Psychopath Test by that famous Cardiff writer, Jon Ronson...

[C0ckney]

I can't be the only one who wants to splash Justin Bieber in the face with a pot full of boiling transmission fluid

sounds like a euphemism to me…

[molly bloom]

sounds like a euphemism to me…

regina just loves handling hot weapons and their emissions.

[Alexander's Horse]

I don't think that 2% of the adult male population in the US or in the world are pedophiles. .

The US bishops conference commissioned a study a few years and came out with a 2% figure, which shocked them because they commissioned the study to show what they expected - that there were less paedophiles in holy orders than the general community, to try and combat some scandals like Boston. But it turned out the figure was roughly the same. The Pope may have drawn on that study.

A contributor to the high figure was recruitment practices, like junior seminaries, where boys as young as 13 or 14 were told they had vocations and segregated from others. Families usually went along with this because it meant kudos to the family, a better education or free tuition. The problem that emerged was men with arrested sexual development attracted to boys around the age of 13 or 14, whose formative sexual experiences were with other boys or paedophile adult men at seminaries. This was a small minority but many were affected by sexual assualt or deprivation.

Junior seminary practices stopped a long time ago. A lot of men who attended them left holy orders later when they realised they didn't have a vocation at all. Some them are quite messed up.

[Bereta_Eder]

Always pertinent in whatsoever the situation henceafter.

[Bereta_Eder]

and that australia sucks

[Alexander's Horse]

This is better