My church is the disciplinary Eastern Orthodox denomination, so I am not sure if it makes a difference. The culture is more patriarchal than western churches. I love my church, and I have no intention of converting to another denomination, but I think some of the religious hypocrites (predominantly the male hypocrites) take advantage of the patriarchal nature of our church. My two priests and some other parishioners are very caring family men, who are the patriarchs of their family. They take care of everyone in their family and help those in the church. But when the priests are in church cleaning up and finishing services whilst tending to the elderly parishioners or newly engaged etc there is little chance of them being able to see everything. Once I tell them I am confident they will take action in order to protect me.
The women avoid this guy, probably because he is so intense. There is a woman who I hang out with at church and whenever she sees him hug me, kiss me and say "You're 18, you're a big girl now" etc she lets out an uncomfortable, nervous laughter and has an uncomfortable facial expression. However, I just smile and pretend that I don't mind (because of my previous belief that he is nice etc).
The women ignore him and try to stay away from him; now I understand why. I will keep an eye out for other young girls, and ask others to keep an eye out for me too.
Beforehand, I had this married man who was totally infatuated with me and would talk about me to other people a lot - he also tried to make me feel sorry for him because his wife wasn't a Christian. He said things to the effect of wishing that he wished that his wife was like me. I want to punch myself in the face.
But I cannot help that I am a magnet. Just kidding, I am awkward.