it seems to me that the same could be said of a lot of other kinds of kink content too, like emotional manipulation, agency-denying mind modification or dramatic body modification.
i'm not sure i understand your second paragraph but to take a stab, i would like to make sure it's clear that i made this because i think it's hot, that it's all intended as sexual content even if it's not necessarily obvious to people who don't have something wrong with them :p
however, to me intensity is pretty much the sole measure of value, so we may somewhat be speaking different languages here