Let me tell you, some shoujo manga gets downright sadistic. People complain about how Twilight's Bella is a useless idiot who gets manhandled by both her love interests, but some shoujo manga has outright rape by the love interests... even when the heroine is explicitly a child... and they REMAIN love interests after that....
The thing is, a male author in this sort of thing is doing it for Male Gaze. When they're being sadistic or humiliating a female character, it's for the purposes of sexual objectification, making them less of a sympathetic character before going onto the actual porn.
A female author that gets sadistic (or perhaps more accurately masochistic) is doing it explicitly as a character, reveling in the pain inflicted on the character. When the torture itself is the porn, it becomes torture porn that cannot get bask in it enough.
Let me tell you, some shoujo manga gets downright sadistic. People complain about how Twilight's Bella is a useless idiot who gets manhandled by both her love interests, but some shoujo manga has outright rape by the love interests... even when the heroine is explicitly a child... and they REMAIN love interests after that....
The thing is, a male author in this sort of thing is doing it for Male Gaze. When they're being sadistic or humiliating a female character, it's for the purposes of sexual objectification, making them less of a sympathetic character before going onto the actual porn.
A female author that gets sadistic (or perhaps more accurately masochistic) is doing it explicitly as a character, reveling in the pain inflicted on the character. When the torture itself is the porn, it becomes torture porn that cannot get bask in it enough.