The contemporary view of gender as a personal choice (rather than as a biological given or as an obdurate social imposition) does not alter the fact that, whenever we find a clear social pattern in attitudes or behaviour, much of it is likely to be explained by gender. This chapter interrogates the gender difference in religiously inspired or facilitated sexual exploitation. A number of female religious leaders and their sexual activities (such as they were) are briefly examined to create a foundation for generalisations about gender and domination. Many new religions led by women did challenge conventional attitudes to sex but, as our examples demonstrate, that dissent was usually in the puritan, rather than the libertine, direction. Precise numbers depend on how sexual offences are defined and recorded but, compared to men, very few women are charged with, and convicted of, sexual offences. In the religious world, as in the secular world, women are far less likely to abuse or to exploit sexually. Put simply, when religious men go bad, their delinquency is sexual; when religious women go bad their delinquency is violence.