Yes this is rape culture

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21. Not surprising, that was well into the modern era.

By then family privacy and male hierarchical power structures were well established. Not sure what would set something like that off. Perhaps the repressive attitudes of the Victorian era caused some men's sexual norms to become warped. Once one starts down the path of child sexual abuse, there was nothing to keep the vicious circle from turning, especially when it came to men molesting boys. While I suspect that child rape and molestation was rare in pre-modern times, one exception may have been in the ecclesiastical institutions where celibate men (hardly a natural lifestyle) were in frequent contact with young men and boys and had the secrecy of the cloister to protect them.