Public shaming simply creates more hypocrisy - it is naive to assume everyone was much better behaved in some imaginary golden past of mom and apple pie and white picket fences - men committed adultery just as much back then and visited prostitutes and strip joints - they just hid their behaviour and went to church on Sunday with their wives to maintain a respectable facade.

And if they gave their wife VD it was all handled very secretively due to shame and ostracism but it still kept happening.

Women suffered in silence and often drowned their sorrows in legal addictions to tobacco, alcohol and prescription pills.

There was just as much paedophilia, incest and child abuse except it was hidden and shame kept a culture of secrecy alive - nowadays it is easy to get a DNA test and discover who your family members are and these tests are revealing huge amounts of incest in family trees.

There never was a perfect moment in the past when everything was wonderful because human nature never changes - it is better to have it all out in the open then the victims can come forward and seek help and protection without having to endure in silence because shame matters more than fundamental decency.