I will say that it is probably a good reminder to everyone that most everything discussed here is from the worldview of the consumer, or those outside of the porn world looking in, and stems from some comparison of your own personal sex life, your relationship with the images that may or may not exist of yourself that mirror, to some degree, those seen in porn.

That does not make the perspective invalid. Pornography is a two-sided transaction between producers and consumers. Neither are immune from criticism. Both are entitled to their opinions.

My partner does porn, runs her own website and films for other content providers.

And I've dated three strippers and did installs at strip clubs.

The thing about this degradation is that it is not simply limited to those that participate in "rough sex" porn.

No, but that's the discussion at hand. Women are degraded every day but only a certain subset voluntarily sign up for it in exchange for money. Let's keep our eye on the ball.

her complaint does not lie with those who viewed the porn... but instead with the supposed "normal" interactions... between her and many of the male students at her university that now accost and now abuse her, as well as the perceived... egalitarian internet/twitter interactions with a blind populace as to her sex work.

Right. Her complaint is that the anonymity that protected her from the stigma she was being paid for vanished and she is now being stigmatized. Riddle me this - you've got lots of friends that do porn. How many people do they tell they do porn? Do they advertise their participation in porn? Do they put it on credit applications? The stigma associated with porn is nothing new - I'd even argue it's decreasing. That doesn't mean it's going to go away just because you want it to. If it did, there wouldn't be as much money in it.

Her response to patriarchy (and more so rape culture) has less to do with the feedback being less than positive, but from outside observers having the revelation that a "normal" person participates in such an "unscrupulous" activity, that somehow this allows the response as seen to be normalized, and before, as a consumer, it is much more so as an "us and them".

This is an assertion, not an argument. Can you back it up?

This type of feedback that she is responding to is not limited just to an "outed" sex worker, but any such female-bodied person or anyone who reads as "submissive" or enjoys some type of "abuse" (not just abusive porn, but just the mere participation in porn elicits this reaction from people, as if they are abused, and if it is made known they are not, they are labeled obtusely with such things as "whore", "slut" etc.) as a result of patriarchal culture who can only respond to sex-positivity with derision and unwarranted abuse.

And this is not just an assertion, this is a groundless assertion. I've known my fair share of kinks and to a man/woman, they didn't face any consequences unless they advertised it. LoveLine first went on air 10 years ago; Dr. Ruth started more than 30 years ago. "Kinkiness" does not have the stigma that "pornographic entertainer" has.