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[Lydia Leftcoast]

7. They did the wrong thing by publicizing those loonies in the first place

Some sort of sexual scandal was inevitable in that environment.

You take an essentially closed society, where the kids have few contacts with the outside world, no access to the ways teens normally express their curiosity about sex and no physical contact with opposite sex persons outside the family--not even hand holding--allowed, too many kids for the parents to supervise adequately, male supremacy (sense of entitlement on the male side and submission on the female side), and I'd be surprised if sexual abuse DIDN'T occur.