Elf Sternberg

I'm trying to parse this sentence, in an article about The Feminist Porn Awards:

The vast majority of explicit material is made for a male audience; at best, it is degrading, and at worst it is often physically harmful to the women featured in it.

I'm trying to figure out what the writer is saying here. Is she saying, "The vast majority of explicit material is degrading to women"? Or is she saying, "Explicit material made for a male audience is, at its best, degrading to women"?

If it's the first, I can see how someone could make that argument. It's an arguable position. I think it shows a deep misunderstanding of the marketplace of porn, and what porn is, who makes it, and who consumes it.

But it seems to me that she's making the second, which I would argue is not only not true, but it's deliberately and viciously androphobic. The assumption is that male pornography consumers (and creators) can only be expected to be degraders of women, and nothing more.

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I also find the rest of the article degrading, as a man. The idea that "'depicting a woman thrust up against a nightclub wall by a man and [redacted] hard' is degrading" is degrading. I wouldn't mind being thrust up against a nightclub wall and [redacted] hard myself, by either a hot man or a hot woman. It's not the act, it's matters of consent and context.