This chapter concerns sexual exploitation in two settings which, though seemingly very different, share elements that re-appear in various shapes in subsequent chapters. At first sight, religion appears to play little or no part in the statutory rape of young white girls by Muslim men in northern English cities or in sexual predation in Hasidic Jewish communities. Muslim and Jewish abusers do not claim divine inspiration or entice victims with promises of a secure place in Heaven or instant enlightenment. However, religion may enter the picture, not in the offender’s modus operandi, but in cultural attitudes to sex and in community introversion. The conservative wings of Islam and Judaism, like conservative Christianity, fear that frank discussion of sexuality stimulates sexual desire; a more plausible alternative, given the public ubiquity of depictions of sexual activity, is that repressive silence prevents young men learning socially acceptable expressions of desire. This chapter illustrates the role of religion in facilitating sexual abuse through two case studies: the British Muslim grooming gangs in Rochdale; and Hasidic Jewish communities in Australia.