Somehow we have begun to assume that it does. I am inclined to believe the person facing such questions should answer any way he or she wants or is able, with the truth, with lies, or with some combination of the two. The problem, of course, is that the mere asking of the question stains the person being asked. How the individual responds is almost irrelevant. As soon as the question is asked, doubt and speculation float into the air.
Judgment is soon to follow.
Tact and propriety have traditionally been what has kept private lives private and public discourse somewhat civilized. But these are qualities that are fading from our lives. Shock value rules now. It is a cancerous little attitude that we learned from the media, both the tabloid and the less tabloid. If it doesn't shock, it doesn't sell.