I'm quietly wondering whether it's not got something to do with the cult of celebrity. If you can't live a life outside of your own four walls because some wazzock is going to invade your privacy with his camera doing selfies simply to get his own fifteen minutes of fame, then it's a fair bet your human needs will become twisted - you will have no private life in society. Certainly true of the Roman Church, who do the same out of their own distorted sense of aestheticism. I think of Cliff and Sue Barker shortly before the time these allegations occurred, when the Press seemed to think they owned them: could this be aftermath? In which case, a plea of diminished responsibilty may be of the order of the day.