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Richard Snipe is an author, former priest, and researcher who has done a lot of study in this area. He has several books on celibacy and it's modern practice, or lack there of. A Secret World is a book in the accounts of about 1500 priests who were sexually active. He has an ancient looking website but his data is sound. He's been involved in Vatican funded studies on the sex lives of priests. http://www.awrsipe.com
A recent book worth checking out that explores the lack of clerical celibacy is In the Closet of the Vatican by Fredric Martel. There's an interesting chapter on an internal war between gay and straight priests and how gay priests are a bit more protected.
Also, I've mentioned this in this sub before, but the reason for my knowledge on this subject is because I myself was in a consensual relationship with a priest for a year and a half, in the mid 2000's. I was not his first and was not his last partner.