“Karen, I was right! Someone escaped! She says they are a cult!” I said to my wife, exuberant. It was Monday, Labor Day. We were at the Lake of the Ozarks, in mid-Missouri, and Karen, my wife, noticed a group of people standing near the overlook on the hill above the lake’s dam. A man about my age was about to take a picture of a group of teenagers with the lake in the background. All of them were well groomed, well behaved and wearing polo shirts and caps that said “Shepherdsfield” on them. Karen offered to take the picture for this man, so he could be in it as well. He was very grateful. “What’s Shepherdsfield?” I asked after the photo had clicked. “We’re a Christian community near Fulton, Missouri,” the man answered. “We’re on our Reward Trip. These young people have been working very hard all summer, and we’re taking them on a Reward Trip before school starts again.” My eyes locked with one of the young people....
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I have been saying, based on the stories I hear from people, that, despite official statistics, there are as many male victims of childhood sexual abuse as there are female victims. My impression was that male homosexual pedophiles perpetrated more often--serially--than male heterosexual ones, for whom pedophilia was more a crime of convenience (e.g. when a man has access to his girlfriend's children). The study you cite would seem to confirm that.