First of all, it becomes ever more clear why young girls and young unmarried women were watched over and guarded by chaperones from their immediate families in times past. (the custom is still practiced in some countries today).
This is because human nature does not change over time.
It never has, and it never will.
Only fashions, styles, forms of civic and governmental structures change and shift; while those engaged in them possess the same human nature as did Adam and Eve.
That being said,there is only one punishment worse than death and worse than imprisonment, and that punishment is BANISHMENT from Eretz Yisrael.
The peoples of ancient civilizations knew this to be true.
Banishment means you will never again step foot in the land of your birth, the land of your ancestors, and the land of your family and friends.
It is not "getting off scot-free" even though at first it might appear so.
Those who are banished undergo the worst kind of torture for all of their lives--mental anguish, terrifying haunting regrets...no amount of atonement or repentance ever makes the punishment go away.
We Jews were banished from Eretz Yisrael for 2,000 years.
It was this punishment; not the persecutions and the Holocaust and the oppression we encountered, which is what drove us mad and left us today physically weak, mentally confused; a people far removed from Torah, and far removed from The Temple in Jerusalem.