>>509916914It actually IS religious and ritualistic if you really look into it despite that explanation not appealing to the ""rational"" and materialistic outlooks we're moulded into, but also it's not just "plain" kompromat to fuck "teens" (enough to get you "cancelled", sure but not evil enough)
It's an "initiation" ceremony even on a non religious level (worse really) like taking a life to ensure you're "blood in" (only fucking a toddler has no moral "out", you could reasonably kill a man and come back from it depending on the circumstances but once you fuck an actual prepubescent child - you're so "dirtied" that even if you have a pang of conscience, you couldn't ever come clean)
Plus that inherently selects for sufficiently psychopathic "members", I'm sure there's plenty that actually get off to the sadism, but those that don't are likely to be psychopaths anyway, and then the few "normal" power-chasers are essentially eternally bound to service by the weight of what they've done.
Violence as an in is also a worse selector than abuse of a child as killing is something you could regret, come back from, and decide to go rogue and turn the violence on those that "made you" do it