The WhatsApp suicide
Some societies are worse than others, but if even in the self-proclaimed modern civilization of the western world professionals in the adult entertainment or sex&#x2F;erotic services industry are treated like 2nd class citizens, there&#x27;s a need for a more substantial shift in perception and treatment of something that&#x27;s as natural as eating and sleeping. It&#x27;s unnatural that many societies have created ways to suppress human nature in many ways they deem morally incorrect, and it&#x27;s very wrong that laws reflect the moral world views of some.<p>I won&#x27;t go into how there used to be societies which in some regards were more open and safer than today&#x27;s, or how the treatment by a part of some religious communities goes against those religions&#x27; core beliefs.<p>Empowering people to defend themselves and deal with abuse in a dignified way is very important, and we first need to stop blaming victims as &quot;promiscuous&quot; or &quot;having asked for it&quot;. This isn&#x27;t very different from how we treat people who went to prison.<p>EDIT: We also need to find a good way to investigate accusations without automatically assuming that, for instance, alleged male perpetrators are by default considered (not found, to be clear) guilty, or that wives do not abuse their husbands. The described societal defects are partly to blame, as are underequipped&#x2F;unskilled law enforcement or judicial departments. If someone can lose their job and family because anybody merely publicly accuses them of a sex crime or adultery, then it&#x27;s clear we have a problem on the other end of the spectrum. To me, both are caused by related societal flaws and will take a long time to correct. Another way this surfaces is that people tend to worry more about a government official&#x27;s personal life than their positive&#x2F;negative acts in office.