We all have our urges, desires, and are prone to fitnah. That is why God put controls in place for us. Some of these controls include the following:
-No friends from opposite gender
-Do not be alone with opposite gender
-Do not mix in certain settings
-Get married, even if young (parents you must step up and help your kids for sake of Allah)
-If cannot get married right away, get engaged, even for long period (Help protect your children parents)
-Intend to refrain from zina in your heart and God will guide you
-Punishments for zina
If you don't make effort on yourselves, and put these controls into place on yourself and on society, you can easily fall into zina. Even if you have urges, or flirted once, or want to be in love, this is natural, but at the end you must do right thing which is refuse to be friends with opposite gender, refuse to meet with opposite gender alone. Those two alone can be enough to protect you. No one is super human that can avoid zina if he/she allows himself to mix and have opposite gender friends and hang around them. By default, shaytaan takes over if man and woman are alone. Even for the best of believers. The difference is simply some believers enforced these controls as means to prevent zina. But they are not stronger than others if they were to be alone with opposite gender. All forms of zina is haram btw, no physical contact before marriage.
I am saying this for ordinary Muslims and not politicians. These stuff happen in Iran, Turkey, Indonesia, and Arab nations too. Unfortunately it happen among common people too. Muslims need to return to fundemntals, kind of like 10 Commandments all over again:
-Avoid haram
-Embrace Halal
-Don't lie
-Don't gossip
-Don't kill without justification
-Don't have opposite gender friends
-Do not take lewd pictures or videos of yourselves (this available on databases and online forever)
-Do not oppress
-Do not drink alcohol or use drugs
-Pray 5 times a day
-Fast
-Give Zakaat
-Don't have double standards
-And so forth
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Do not make these sex scandal matters a joke. Sadly, it probably made these politicians more popular and it will lead to increase in zina as people will see everyone is doing this so why don't we do too. Zina pattern is gonna lead to obsession with zina, and distraction from obligations to God , until essentially it's as if people left Islam in total. When they doing zina like this they don't care about prayer, justice, corruption, haram/halal, the poor, the oppressed, it is just becomes attention seeking, sex, parties, money.
Also do not tolerate behavior and brush under the rug. Some people will do this in secret and we think its okay as long as they do not get caught and humiliated. This is not right, it's not okay because God commanded us to stay away from it. Because this bad mentality, lots of people are living this privately and also holding positions of influence. Outwardly they seem fine, but we don't know how they are privately, so we are run by morally corrupt people as we can clearly see results in the moral, financial and political corruption that takes place in our societes. If our leaders are ethical and high moral people, you will see things change in society. Allah made these very clear for us, it's called sunan-Allah.
If for example we had good leadership, then lots of bribe culture/norm is gonna go away. And people will be scared or relucatant to do zina. You will see it in peoples personalities. But if personalities are to be 'cool' , then you know we are led by corrupt.