Of course, rape isn’t the only issue. Some 72,000 men are victims of sexual offences every year, according to official estimates, while other studies suggest as many as one in six men are the subject of “unwanted sexual attention” before the age of 16. Alisdair, now 49 and the director of a recruitment company, was heavily involved with the church in his first year at university but found unwanted advances from senior figures in it left him wary of sexual contact for years. “After what happened I didn’t know how to deal with anything further than kissing. I felt awkward about people touching me sexually and that really delayed my sexual development,” he says.