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I think you're making a huge logical leap there. Can you not envision a society which affords people freedom in their love life, but doesn't tolerate sexual dynamics that revolve around dominance and exploitation?
This is very similar to the free market vs. communism false dichotomy. Americans scream "socialism" at everything, as if any kind of regulation will immediately lead to a communist dictatorship. But in fact, many countries follow a social democratic model that allows an essentially free market while still implementing many regulations that try to curtail exploitation of workers.
Why can't we have a culture that essentially allows free love, but implements "regulations" (in the form of taboos as well as some laws) that try to protect vulnerable people from sexual abuse and exploitation? Why should sexual liberation mean that we can't criticize men who want to exert physical dominance over women? Why should it mean that we can't make it illegal to produce commercial films glorifying male domination over women?
No person who lives a sex life that's based around genuine mutual love and/or pleasure would in any way be limited by a law such as for instance the Civil Rights Ordinance. It wouldn't put any kind of limit on their choice in partners, number of partners, marital status when they choose to have sex, and so on. It wouldn't even limit the exchange of sexual images between partners ("sharing nudes") since the definition of pornography doesn't include that.