I have speculated in the past, based on my own upbringing in the Evangelical world and on my experience as a member of an extended Roman Catholic clan, that unrealistic sexual morality standards actually increase the probability of predatory sexual behavior.

The faithful find themselves in a situation where ordinary human sexuality is condemned as immoral to particularly stigmatizing effect. For complex historical reasons, sexual sin is for conservative Christians practically unspeakable sin. All sins may be equal, but everybody knows that sexual sins are in a category all their own.

So people find themselves in a situation where the boundaries between religiously immoral (sinful) sexual behavior and predatory sexual behavior become fuzzy and difficult to distinguish.

It’s all horribly wrong, as it were, so why draw fine lines? Or maybe it’s all so wrong leaders don’t bother to teach the lines.

After all, what utility is there in teaching about consent culture when the consensual sex would be sinful anyway?

So we end up with hypocrites. All the time.