Those quotes have been cherry-picked to give you that impression, so the article leads with outrage. I didn't think the Economist did that. Note that they sourc

Those quotes have been cherry-picked to give you that impression, so the article leads with outrage. I didn't think the Economist did that. Note that they sourced those quotes from a country which is still a more conservative society (for understandable reasons - not a criticsm). If they had quotes that bad from the US or the UK you can bet they'd have used them instead.