Sex scandal

This blog is a respons to the following news:

Sex scandal pop star Edison Chen appears in Hong Kong court


(this article can be found at
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/hongkong/4799506/Sex-scandal-pop-star-Edison-Chen-appears-in-Hong-Kong-court.html)

"Over 1,000 photographs of Mr Chen, 28, entertaining a variety of Hong Kong's female celebrities were leaked onto the web in January last year, causing a sensation in China. [...]"

Mr Chen, a sex-offender! The question is: was he really being bad? He, as it was put properly by the press, "entertained" a variety of women, but is that to be considered as being bad? Lust, of course, is one of the seven deadly sins. But if this is something to go to court for, probably a lot of people would be in trouble right now. Most likely half of the students would be in jail and there wouldn't be so many children being born every day.

On the other hand: 1,000 photos is quite a lot. Makes you wonder how long this took him, or if he had just one very busy night (or day). So it has to be said: he must have been extremely lusty. And of course, if there were any other items of the "being bad list" involved in this case, that would make it more likely to be categorized as "bad behaviour". Questions rise... Did he have a girlfriend/boyfriend/husband/wife, did any of the involved ladies had a relationship (which would make him less or more guilty in that adultery? I'm not going to go into this for now), were there any animals harmed while making the photos, did he lie to anyone about his intentions, are all the women involved 18+ and how bad are the photos for that matter??

What must not be forgotten here, is how those pictures became public. According to the source, "[a] computer technician named Ho-Chun Sze has been charged with stealing the photographs from Mr Chen's computer while servicing the machine and releasing them." Wouldn't stealing, breaking someone's trust, probably lying about it, invading someone's privacy, trying to make money out of someone else's private stuff and probably more, be considered a worse case of being bad, worse than a case of (severe) lust?

Something else to take into consideration: we're talking China here. China thinks this was so bad of Mr Chen, that he has to come to court. China is very different from the UK (or from my homecountry, for that matter), and that makes it a bit more difficult for me to judge this whole scandal. If there is any country we consider to be "civilized" these days, when actually being very bad (human rights, they way they treat their food -when it's still alive-, etcetera), it's China. So maybe you can say that China is a lot different from (Western) Europe, and maybe this kind of "scandal" wouldn't have been considered this bad and going to court when happening in the UK but it actually is normal for China? (un)Fortunately, I don't know too much of the British Court System (could be the fact that I'm Dutch) so I cannot make any statements on this. It would definately have been the headline of the gossipmagazines here, but a court-case..? I can't really tell.

However, when you are famous, you are likely to become a rolemodel. Most of the time a rolemodel for younger people. If you would ask any parent, they would say this isn't exactly the best example of how to behave and being good, but rather of being bad. So in that point of view it is probably bad behaviour we're talking here (she said, carefully..).

But then there's the other side of being famous. Ok, he probably wouldn't have had the opportunity to do nasty things with multiple famous women when he wasn't famous, but let's pretend he would have. If he was just a regular Chinese guy and this would have come out, would everybody have had a negative opinion about it, would it have made the guinness book of world records or would nobody have cared?

I cannot give a real conclusion here, since I've never had the urge to do something similar to what Mr Chen has been charged for (no, really) and maybe he had some real good reasons to do so. So I'll just end this blog with: more details please.