“Exeter residents have spoken of their shock that a dangerous sex fiend has been sleeping rough in the Exwick area of the city. Police released a warning yesterday that the convicted pervert has only just been released from prison… Detectives are working on several leads to trace his whereabouts. The man was jailed for a terrifying sex assault on a vicar’s wife in Derbyshire and is said to have a fetish about female clerics, but has also attacked a baby and elderly people.” — ThisIsExeter.com (UK)

It seems to be overstating the case that a guy has a cleric fetish just because he happened to rape a vicar’s wife. After all, he also assaulted a baby and some old people, and nobody’s saying he has a fetish for those. Probably it’s the kind of fabricated detail that spreads like wildfire through the local gossip. It adds color to what is really not much of a story — a sex criminal camping in the local fields because he had nowhere to go when he was released from prison.

That being said, you could certainly understand it if the guy did have a fetish for female clerics. Judging by the amount of pornography that features nuns and Catholic schoolgirls, it’s not eactly an uncommon turn-on. In fact, you could argue that religion may even be the ultimate turn-on. The logic of desire is such that you most want what you can’t get — which is why being coy is an excellent way of flirting, or why unrequited love is so painful. It may also be why female clergy so frequently form a part of sexual fantasy: precisely by removing themselves from the economy of sex, they diminish supply and exacerbate demand. Nuns are sexy to men for the same reason rare butterflies are precious to lepidopterists — simply because they’re rare.

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