
Yes - it is demeaning.
And yet such things go on all over the world. There is no country in the world where this doesn't occur in some form or another - and in many cases far more repulsive and degrading than this is.
And no one alive in the western world is innocent of participation in such things however vicariously - reality TV is not particularly decorous now is it?
Here is a tourist attraction in Amsterdam
And that is positively benign when compared to what might be produced in the San Fernando valley in the good old USA - be warned!
We are fallen creatures in a wicked world.