At least Farscape, which has been described as an American's descent in the Australian S&M scene, is aware that it's about sex, that viewers want to drool over the male actors as well as the female ones, and that it's silly. As opposed to all the shows which have women in ultra-revealing and highly impractical costumes for no apparent reason, or Stargate occasionally putting their characters into leather corsets and the like but not appearing to notice what that implies. You know, "and here we have a bondage scene that hasn't noticed that it's a bondage scene" sort of thing.
Though they still have nothing on some SF book covers, which will have an anatomically-impossible "warrior woman" in a costume she probably could hardly move in, especially not without anything falling out, and this will be merrily plastered on the front cover irrespective of whether it bears the slightest relevance to the contents of the book. Honestly, they're not even all that different from some of the Pratchett covers, which are satirising that sort of thing. I've got some Le Guins where the covers are straining after this approach, and evidently no one told the publisher that it was actually fairly serious SF and strongly feminist to boot.
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Though they still have nothing on some SF book covers, which will have an anatomically-impossible "warrior woman" in a costume she probably could hardly move in, especially not without anything falling out, and this will be merrily plastered on the front cover irrespective of whether it bears the slightest relevance to the contents of the book. Honestly, they're not even all that different from some of the Pratchett covers, which are satirising that sort of thing. I've got some Le Guins where the covers are straining after this approach, and evidently no one told the publisher that it was actually fairly serious SF and strongly feminist to boot.