Phantom, I can't remember how to quote someone any more. I agree with everything you said. If you take a vow of celibacy, but want to mess around, get out. Those who preyed on the students or anyone else, make me sick. I get the impression from the monks I know, that there was a kind of throwing up of hands or denial of all the crap that was going on, for a time there. I think the dam broke in 2002, and the monks who were abusive are either gone, or dead now. Many men who came, left, just not being able to handle the permissive atmosphere. I won't go on, that is a book. Thankfully, I believe now the wheat has been separated from the chaff, and things are on an even keel.