Some willingly join 'the club' of those who are exposed to blackmail. On one hand it allows them into deeper circles and holder of more secrets - because of the security the blackmailers now have over them. There is a more insidious and ugly aspect to it as well, which applies to people like John Podesta. They not only join 'the club' by their actions, they take an active role in cultivating/growing the club and the entire fabrication allows them to avoid the guilty feelings associated with their particular sickness/perversion. They can rationalize that it is no longer their own responsibility, they are forced into deeper and deeper hedonistic perversion by their 'masters'.

But every man is responsible for his own actions. This applies to toads as well.