They don't want you lusting over pixels (hot vidya and anime women), they want you lusting over pixels (OF thots) and pixels (repulsive degenerate fetish shit).

Hot vidya and anime women are today's version of pin-up girls, you're not supposed to goon over them, but rather have them in the background of environments where male bonding occurs. They tell you to go masturbate because you're only supposed to appreciate a woman's beauty in the most detached, carnal, and yet also cuckolded manner (jerking it to another man banging a woman you're attracted to).

Male bonding over appreciating beautiful women bad, that might lead to men getting together to help each other get girlfriends. Can't have that. You're only allowed to be a cuckold (coomer), a fag, or someone with such a severe fetish that you're not even interested in real sex anymore, just weird disgusting shit like piss and scat or furries and vore etc.

Sexual liberalism is about centering sexual selection while eliminating natural selection, and men wanna spread their genes, but that also means men wanna help other men within their extended kinship network spread their genes too. Women have this instinct as well, they love being matchmakers for their friends, and the troon stuff subverts the ability of women to take up their traditional role as the social glue operating in the background.

My point being that whether they realize it or not, leftists are, to borrow hunger grandpa's terminology, building the "superstructure" of progressive sexual moralizing around the "base" of sexual capitalism. In the long run human sexuality will be managed by giant corporate pimps, as "sex work" is legalized and Tinder and such give women the opportunity to make some cash on the side in exchange for dipping down into the bottom 80%. The line between hookups and hooking will be blurred deliberately, every woman will be at least a potential prostitute, because the "yes model" of consent makes all sex into an explicit hedonic exchange at best.

Invasions, infiltrations, corruptions, propaganda, and genocides happen in stages. You don't jump to the end stage, or the frogs jump out of the pot. The initial advertising of sex in media was to get men hooked on porn. It worked. Now that men are hooked on porn (which is freely available all over the internet), they've shifted mainstream media to demoralization and normalization of ugliness. This is what the Soviets did to demoralize their people through architecture (brutalism).