Perhaps when some boys who have been raised RC start to experience sexual attraction to other boys, fear and prejudice overtake them and they enter the priesthood as a way to embrace celibacy. They use celibacy and the priesthood as a cure, so to speak, for their own homosexuality which they have been taught from birth is evil. However, many of them continue the sexual fantasies of their developmental years and end up acting out on it.
Additionally, people may be attracted to jobs as religious leaders because they have pedophilic urges. Instead of getting mental health treatment for it, they believe their god(s) will help them prevail over those urges.
So, celibacy may not cause the behavior, it may be one of the things that attracts those with the propensity for the behavior. The same, if the case, would hold for women in nunneries.
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