http://www.osho.com/Topics/TopicsEng/Sex-abuse.htm Osho interviewed by Fred Bruning of Newsday, Long Island, NY
Q: WHAT FOR YOU IS SEXUAL PERVERSION?
A: It is a religious disease, sexual perversion.... It is a religious disease. All the religions of the world are responsible for it because first they started forcing celibacy on people, which is unnatural. Unless you are impotent, you cannot be celibate. And the strangest thing is: not a single impotent person has become enlightened in the whole history of man.
That means that all these people ― Gautam Buddha, Jesus Christ, Krishna ― all these people were more sexual than ordinary people. It is their over-sexual energy that does not feel contented with women and children and the ordinary, mundane world. After all this experience they are still too full of energy and they want to go on some higher quest. All these people are over sexual.
No impotent person has contributed anything to the world, because he cannot be creative. His basic creative energy, sex energy, is missing. Telling people to be celibate and then putting monks in one place, in one monastery and putting nuns into another place, and not allowing men and women to meet, you are creating the situation for homosexuality. So Catholics are responsible, Hindus are responsible, Buddhists are responsible ― they are creating the situation.
Q: I DON'T THINK CATHOLICS OR BUDDHISTS OR HINDUS ARE ANY MORE LIKELY TO BE HOMOSEXUALS THAN ANYONE ELSE.
A: They have to be. Particularly their monks ― what will they do?
Q: BUT THAT DOESN'T EFFECT NECESSARILY THE MASSES OF PEOPLE.
A: That reflects, because those... for example, in India there are five million Hindu monks. Now these five million Hindu monks are staying in Hindu families, are coming in contact with Hindu children, women ― all kinds of people. And they are bound to spread their perversion in every possible way. They will be abusing children for their sexuality. They have been caught: just now, three or four days before, one Christian priest has been imprisoned for one and a half years because he was abusing small children.
Q: BUT THESE SEEM ISOLATED INCIDENTS...
A: They are not isolated. They don't come to your notice ― that is one thing... because the church wants to repress them, the society wants to repress them, the government wants to repress them.
Osho: The Last Testament, Vol. 1, #30
Pope the Polack is on his world pilgrimage. He stops in San Francisco to bless the people and take part in a holy mass at the cathedral.
Claude, a transvestite, happens to be sitting next to the aisle as the pope comes past on his way to the altar, swinging the incense burner.
"Hey, sweetheart," says Claude to a startled Pope the Polack, "I just love your gown. But did you know that your handbag is on fire?"
Osho: YAA-HOO! The Mystic Rose, #10
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