Sexuality - don’t try to deny it. Bad things happen. This was a really interesting, sad story on the radio today.  Listen to the audio, the text is abridged.

One of the biggest challenges in treating priests, Lothstein says, is that they don’t have the same kind of sexual experiences — or history of talking about such experiences — that an ordinary adult may have.

“Many of the priests tend to be psychosexually immature,” he says. “They’ve never taken a course in healthy sexuality.”

He says some of them have gone into minor seminary at age 14 and developed “a sense of self without having appropriate lines of dating, meeting other people, experimenting with touch, kissing, ordinary sexuality.”