Porn (as opposed to non-oppressive sexual entertainment) has basically dominated the market for sexually-explicit goods for, well, ever, and that makes it hard to open up the field for sexually-explicit works that aren't oppressive. It's not surprising that in a culture where misogyny's longstanding and endemic, on a millennial scale, that the culture's sexually-explicit material would reflect and perpetuate it.
Then again, a frat boy would look at, say, Susie Bright's* work and get out of it exactly what he already knew, which is that women are things. So producing non-oppressive sexual entertainment media isn't the only answer, since a significant portion of the audience is so thoroughly steeped in evil...I suppose it'll have to be a multi-front war, with no simple or single solutions.
*I pick Bright because she's commonly held up as a feminist creator of sexually-explicit material, not because I actually think she's got feminist cred. I am skeptical, but ultimately don't know enough about her to make a judgment.
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Porn (as opposed to non-oppressive sexual entertainment) has basically dominated the market for sexually-explicit goods for, well, ever, and that makes it hard to open up the field for sexually-explicit works that aren't oppressive. It's not surprising that in a culture where misogyny's longstanding and endemic, on a millennial scale, that the culture's sexually-explicit material would reflect and perpetuate it.
Then again, a frat boy would look at, say, Susie Bright's* work and get out of it exactly what he already knew, which is that women are things. So producing non-oppressive sexual entertainment media isn't the only answer, since a significant portion of the audience is so thoroughly steeped in evil...I suppose it'll have to be a multi-front war, with no simple or single solutions.
*I pick Bright because she's commonly held up as a feminist creator of sexually-explicit material, not because I actually think she's got feminist cred. I am skeptical, but ultimately don't know enough about her to make a judgment.