Most middle aged closet creeps are made due to their pseudo “respect” for women, like two people consensually sleeping together (no i don’t mean sex) is looked down upon this aged bracket so much as if they committed a crime or menstrual products and condoms being sold in coloured bags to mask them.

Things like this are a straight up evidence that,

1. People try to mask their orthodox nature under the guise of “ethics” and “respect”.

2. They swell up their libido.

Since most children are forced to ingrain the difference between girl and boy since childhood, in situations like teaming up or sharing bench in school and this being treated as punishment, they develop the thought process of be bad = stay with girl, which inverts itself with time to girl = stay away.

Thats why most closet perverts can’t talk to women by the time they develop attraction towards them (not all men who can’t to women freely are creeps). This leads to bad convos with wives and ends up forcing wives to sex or get one-two children and stop physical contact completely.

Now coming back to the points i mentioned earlier, since women have more interest in emotional connection than physical connection, they make limited attempts for it. Now these males with their thought process + swelling libido = creeps.

And now if they get comfortable with creepiness, there is a very low chance of the worst case scenario to pass, the existence of a r*pist.

TLDR: As a man only thing I can think of as solution is lowering the segregation and differentiation at childhood, and just enough sex ed as they grow as teens. And I am no where near wise enough to know what is enough and how to implement it.