"There's more political pressure on sexual norms and family norms, so you see a profusion of these sorts of scandals, " says Paul Apostolidis, a political science professor at Whitman College in Washington state and the co-editor of the 2002 book Public Affairs: The Politics of Sex Scandals.
They usually made their mark by subverting whatever social, political, or artistic norms, unspoken, arbitrary rules, and limiting beliefs prevailed around them.
Traditionally, minorities used various local means to engage the majority population in a bid to influence the political direction or cultural norms of the nation state.