Abuse

I have been impressed by the number of child abuse stories on public radio recently here in the U.S. and also on BBC from the U.K.. The stories, of course, are spiced with sexual predation. In a U.K story today, the reporter qualified a story about a celebrity predator who sexually abused children for 50 years. The reporter made a point to mention that, despite the overwhelmingly heterosexual nature of his predation, the perpetrator had also sexually abused at least one young boy. A truly horrific story.

My question is, "Isn't a puritanical society really the sexual abuser of children when it denies them sexual education and adequate access to trained professionals who can help them?"