As you state, it seems that increasingly sexual harassment and abuse is seen "as a function of power over others, not sex or lust".  It is also in many, many instances unfettered, bestiality and overwhelming power - whether of physical strength, alcohol, drugs - is the weapon rather than the end.  
It seems to me that "power" that is not sustained is not really power; abusers seem just as likely to discard the victim. 
I'm not discounting the "power", just don't think the dimension of bestiality should be discounted. Ken Wilbur puts it quite succinctly at the top of page 4, in his Introduction to"A Brief History of Everything".

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