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I think it would reduce the number of child molesters, and homosexual priests. The big idea of have celibacy is nonsense, especially in today sex obsessed Western societies.

...yeah, I see a lot of Buddhist monks that molest children. Point being: child molestation has nothing to do with celibacy. It is completely ignorant and absurd to assume that there's any connection between child molestation and lack of sex. I didn't have sex for 22 years until I married my wife, and not once did I ever have the urge to molest a child. These heineous crimes are the product of pyschological disorders and there is absolutely no evidence to support otherwise. For every child molesting celibate "priest" you can name, I could name just off the top of my head a hundred celibate priest that aren't throughout the 1500+ years that this has been practiced.

After all, I highly doubt you'd want to suggest that Jesus and St. Paul were child molesters...they did refrain from sexual relations entirely, after all.

"...yeah, I see a lot of Buddhist monks that molest children. " I know, it's terrible, isn't it? I feel so sorry when I travel to Asia and I see those poor kids with the monks. They probably get passed around like peace pipes. Buddhism's pedophile monks By Uwe Siemon-Netto, UPI Religion Correspondent WASHINGTON, (UPI) -- Sex between clergymen and boys is by no means a uniquely Catholic phenomenon, a noted American scholar said Wednesday -- it's been going on in Buddhist monasteries in Asia for centuries. "Of course, this is against the Buddhist canon," Leonard Zwilling of the University of Wisconsin in Madison told United Press International, "but it has beencommon in Tibet, China, Japan and elsewhere." "In fact, when the Jesuits arrived in China and Japan in the 16th century, they were horrified bythe formalized relationships between Buddhist monks and novices who were still children. These relationships clearly broke the celibacy rule," said Zwilling, who has written extensively about this topic for more than three decades, and was one of the first to do so. Zwilling, who holds a doctoral degree in Buddhist studies said in a telephone interview this practice continued until well into 20th century. [and is said to still continue] Although the Buddha clearly proscribed sex of any kind in monasteries, "we know of incidents where members of the Bob-Dob, an order enforcing discipline among Tibetan monks,fought each other over boys," continued Zwilling. "They clobbered each other with huge keys that were the tools of their trade. We also know that generations of Dalai Lamas had their 'favorites,' although we have no proof that these relationships were sexual." Other studies show that Buddhist monks in Japan practiced a non-sexual form of "pedophilia" as long ago as the 10th century, according to Minnesota-based Ralph Underwager, a pastor, psychologist and one of the world's leading experts on child abuse.