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You and allthenews seems to be mistaken in the same way. I am not saying that cults are disproportionately responsible for sexual coercion. They can't be. As yo

You and allthenews seems to be mistaken in the same way. I am not saying that cults are disproportionately responsible for sexual coercion. They can't be. As you correctly point out, they account for a vanishingly small share of sexual activity. What I am saying is that if you join a cult, your chance of being coerced (sexually if you are what the person/people in power prefer, and financially/emotionally/etc. in all cases) starts to approach 100%. Whereas, if you are in a monogamous pair, there is a pretty good chance that you will not be coerced sexually. I am in no way saying that monogamous pairs are perfect (or even pretty good; there are all sorts of issues with them), just that, given the choice between that and a cult, you should avoid the cult.

rosser 8y ago
> Whereas, if you are in a monogamous pair, there is a pretty good chance that you will not be coerced sexually. Multiple analyses of spousal/partner rape put the incidence on the order of 30-40% of all adult rape cases. When there's co-occurring domestic violence, that number climbs to over 70%. Partner and acquaintance rape combined vastly outnumber stranger assaults. Monogamy is not a solution to that problem. I guess one could argue that ~7 out of 10 is a "pretty good chance", but that's still uncountably more people than have even belonged to, let alone were abused by, all the cults in the history of ever, combined. I get it: cults are dangerous. Stipulated. "[G]iven the choice between [monogamy] and a cult, you should avoid the cult" is still a false dilemma, however, and no matter how strongly you assert you were just talking about cults, the language you used up-thread was considerably broader than that, as well.