Totally disagree with you on this Rob. Your views are archaic. You don't know what it's like to lose your job (I was 18, he was 30) because you wouldn't sleep with your boss. It's not all right because it's modeling or art or movies or whatever - what a bunch of bullshit.
Sharon, people lose their jobs every day; some because they are useless at their job, some because they are too good and present a challenge to the boss; some because they won't have sex with the boss and some because the business just folds. There are all sorts of reasons to make it happen, and I certainly do not think it good behaviour to fire people because they won't get personal with you, the boss or employer or co-worker or whatever.
That said, it is also true that there are certain areas of work where normal behaviour patterns fizzle out. It's a fact of life and not wishing it to be so does not change it. I firmly believe that people must be aware of where they desire to put themselves in life. The world is as it is, and not a lot is going to change. If you think about it in terms of proportion, you have to accept that even where people are slaughtered every day by gun violence, change will not happen on any meaningful level. If you know that that can't be altered, what on Earth makes you think a few models' complaints are going to change life in a dodgy business like model photography? It won't; a few visible heads may roll, but those spaces will instantly be filled by new supplicants.
Believe me, I spent my working years in the business, and no legislation, public shaming or anything else will hold back the tides of young women leaping headlong into it, all risks be damned, and as many fresh young Turks waving cameras at them with bedrooms filling their imaginations. It probably doesn't feature large in your current work, but for many other snappers it is an everyday event to gaze temptation in the eye... The trick, of course, is to try to make it as difficult for yourself to fall into that trap as you can.
What, exactly, other than express disapproval, can anyone realistically do about it? Nobody pretended it was all a church picnic we were having, though today, the latter may be even more dangerous.
Archaic. Of course it is! As archaic as Adam and Eve. It's where we came in. We have no plan B. That's really where you must look for the "bullshit" distressing you right now. I have a daughter and two granddaughters: I am happy they found work in areas other than mine. That said, I am sure they would have survived pretty intact! Much of it depends on the individual and whether or not of the victim mentality. You survived; why not the rest? Look for the answer within their own heads. Again, nobody says it's all right;
I say that it is what it is, and if it upsets you, don't go near it. Anyone who seriously believes that it is possible to run around studios or on location somewhere half-naked or totally so, and that the normal rules of office life apply is living in a tree.
I can only restate: think about the ticket you want to buy before you climb into that bus.