Reply #188: Possibly.

[Chan790]

But the argument can also be made that as both sexism and misogyny are intrinsic to the viewer, not the image, that they're not perpetuating anything, merely revealing these things already present.

Sexists and misogynists are going to be sexists and misogynists whether they look at images of hog-tied women or not. It's possible even that doing so serves as an outlet and thus reduces the net societal quantities of these traits. (I don't actually think this last part, it's just an interesting Devil's advocate.)

It's a slippery slope: If degrading images of women perpetuate sexism and misogyny, do images of women degrading men in identical ways perpetuate female empowerment? I ask not because I think they do but because my understanding of those images is that their intent is to perpetuate female empowerment. I've heard that argument made peripherally by Midori, a famous shibari/kinbaku instructor from San Francisco. If you intend to argue that those images also degrade women, that's a harder hurdle to field.