I wonder if anybody ever had sexual activities with any member of a religious community such as a priest, rabbi, sermonizer or ministrant or other servant or clerical person etc. (this question is meant to be open to all religions!)
In the Christian faith, does your question cover the example of the Protestant reformer Martin Luther (a former Catholic Priest), who married the (former) nun Katharina von Bora? From what I can tell, they had an interesting and complex marriage - though it developed as a rather straightforward dating and courtship relationship, without any illicit or inappropriate overtones.
Given what the Roman Catholic Church has been going through for the last few years (and Protestant Church) there are likely a lot of individuals who have made sexual connection through some religious function . . . .
In the U.S., the novel "
The Scarlet Letter" has been a staple in High School literature classes for several generations. The story is built around a young woman who conceives a child during an affair with a much older (Protestant) clergyman. The novel was published in the mid 1800's, but the story is set in the mid 1600's. Although it is a work of fiction, some scholars have attempted to connect elements of the story to historical incidents.
My point is that sexual connections between people in religious vocations, and laity, is not a recent invention. Likewise, I suspect it happens between people in religious vocations, and I suspect Christianity isn't the only faith where it happens. It is disgraceful and shameful that some of those connections involve flagrant, or even subtle, abuse but they are not always abusive. Some people seem to have an unexplainable attraction to people in religious vocations. As the character "Hodel" in the musical "Fiddler on the Roof" confesses,
" We have only one Rabbi and he has only one son.
Why shouldn't I want the best? "
I don't have any first-hand experiences, unless you include my pastor's wife arranging for me to meet her niece, to whom I have been married for almost 45 years. But my wife . . . . had a strong crush on her (married) pastor during her High School and early college years (before we met). They never had sex (she was definitely a virgin on our wedding night) but their relationship and activities were inappropriate for a person in a position of authority, and a subordinate. Early in our dating relationship, when we started getting really serious, we spent a weekend as houseguests of that pastor and his wife, so that he could evaluate me as a potential husband for my wife. That pastor left the ministry rather abruptly, and without much explanation, while my wife was in college and I have often wondered if he had other affairs with women in his congregation.