There's nothing wrong with sexiness. The issue is when sexiness is used as an excuse for women adventurers to be portrayed as victims.
And yet women do not desire to see men in weak positions but do identify and empathize with women in 'victim' positions while feeling greater sense of accomplishment when they recover from that
BTW, if you read classic Conan, he was victimized CONSTANTLY and put in shackles, stripped, etc. It was SUPER common to the point where it was a normal thing.
Neither women nor men want to see Conan in 'peril' like Sonja is on that cover, however.
Meanwhile, psychologically, largely speaking both men and women are fine with women being shown like that.
Crazy but it seems like men and women might have differently wired brains both for how they perceive things AND how they perceive the two sexes