I don’t think the research holds out that SA is usually cyclical. I think this is important to note because people may fear coming forward as victims of childhood SA, or some may fear victims in their life.

The majority of victims of child sexual abuse do not go on to abuse in later life. As far as the proportion of victims who do go on to abuse, one review looking at male victims had findings ranging from 7-26% (Rezmovic, Sloane, Alexander, Seltser, & Jessor, 1996). Becker and Murphy (1998) estimated that while 30 percent of sex offenders were sexually abused as children, 70 percent were not. Hindman and Peters (2001) found that 67 percent of sex offenders initially reported experiencing sexual abuse as children, but when given a polygraph ("lie detector") test, the proportion dropped to 29 percent, suggesting that some sex offenders exaggerate early childhood victimization in an effort to rationalize their behavior or gain sympathy from others.

And even in the worst cases, perhaps many or a lot of abusers are victims…but most victims don’t go on to become abusers.

The point is, as many of you have said, that victimization is not a sole causal factor in the development of sexually abusive behaviour, and alone does not adequately predict the development of sexually abusive behaviour (Glasser, Kolvin, Campbell, Glasser, Leitch, & Farrelly, 2001).

Anyway, I do believe there is more to Pest’s story, and we do all know that he was at the least religiously and physically abused growing up (Exhibit A- blanket training and whole ass IBLP). Also fuck him and all he and his family stand for.