The upper echelon of the elites, think de Rothschild and Soros and Saudi princes and shit, know full well it's a great blackmail tool, but more than that, it proves that their underlings believe in their philosophy of Post-Modernism.
"Do as thou wilt", Post-Modernism is the idea that any means is justified, no matter how vile, as long as it brings one advantage. Part of that is an extreme hedonism - they desire "the forbidden" more than anything as "elites", since they have everything else.
Post-Modernism is the philosophy of globalist psychopathy.
Look into the psychology of cults and religions, also - that's how they get people in deep. They slowly make the person's identity a function of their acceptance in the group. For the globalist post-modernist crowd, this means going along with increasing disgusting and vile acts. If they refuse, their self-worth is questioned, since their self-worth is intimately tied to the group/cult's
approval.