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By Hudson Gumbihi
Open discussion on sex in the Catholic Church is almost taboo, yet there is widespread intimacy between priests and nuns.
A number of priests have abandoned the celibacy vow, succumbing to the urge of the flesh with nuns being the principal partners, either willingly or through coercion.
It is a close-knit affair, which has been going on and few dare discuss, save for occasional dramas when priests either defect or are caught in child-paternity cases.
But beneath the confessions and exposes of the wayward priests lies tales of how nuns engage in sex within the otherwise conservative church known for an uncompromising stance on celibacy.
Men and women who have committed to serve the Lord exercise a simple life devoid of marriage, sex and acquisition of worldly materials within the Catholic hierarchy involving the pope, cardinals, arch-bishops, ordinary bishops, priests, seminarians and nuns.
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