I feel for girls growing up now... they are being groomed to think degradation = empowerment.
Yes. The damaging thing is that we already have a generation who have grown up with internet porn-addled men and have started having sex and think that degrading sex acts direct from porn are perfectly acceptable, as we see on threads arguing about porn on other boards. The age split in attitude is really obvious.
Psychologically, these young women are highly invested in not changing their minds about this because to admit they have been allowing men to degrade them throughout their sexual life would naturally be very painful mentally. So they continue to bat for the porn-positive team and prefer to think old gimmers like me are just behind the times prudes.
We badly need a new educational intervention for the next generation. Zero tolerance of this anti-women, child-endangering pornified shit. Letting girls know there was a time (all the rest of human history I daresay) when young men didn't have erectile dysfunction unless they were coming on your face or sticking it up your arse.
The concept of widely available pornography is incredibly new. The permanent photographic image is less than 200 years old. Men are showing us that, as a class, they can't control themselves when it comes to porn, they are like toddlers let loose in a new sweet shop: they are consuming, consuming, consuming and are making themselves sick. Then, to continue the metaphor somewhat distastefully, vomiting up the consequences all over women and children.