Jesus, I can understand some fetishes but who the hell gets off on this kind of stuff?
No honestly, who dreams off cutting up little girls and having sex with their now loose lady bits and so on, or eating parts of people that are cut of when they are still alive?
I see it like that. Better people get their steam out on a comic rather then somewhere else, if you catch my drift. There exist a lot of, lets call it unhealthy fetishes, and while I definitely understand why most people find such art gross, I still believe that its doing a great service, one way or another. I am sure it doesnt help everyone to stay sane, a person like Ted Bundy would have killed people regardless of comics or not, but believe it or not, I dont think that everyone who has a questionable sexual fetishes - like pedophila, actually feels
happy about it, it is considered to be a sickness after all. Now unless someone develops a pill that magically cures you from any anomalies that you have in your brain, I guess there is not much you can do except for going in to art, to yeah, get at least some rest, since I guess we all agree that pornography with real people is out of the question here and not an option! There is a lot of fucked up shit out there, no doubts about that. But some imaginative characters getting tortured, humilated etc. on paper? That is probably the least of our problems in society. I mean its always easy to judge things from the outside, when you have the luck not to be born with such thoughts, I always have to shake my head when people get completely outraged about some antromorphic characters drawn as cups getting banged, just to turn to their real-porn folder watching that gay-fisting orgy, just because its legaly allowed.
I know what its like when you come in to a situation where you actually realize how little controll you have over your brain, when you spend your times in a hospital full of medications. I had still some luck, just depressions and insomnia, but it does make you think. Mind you, I am NOT defending the criminals, those that not only dream about it, but also go out to fullfill their fantasies, raping children or murdering people, like serial killers. But what about those that suffer from those thoughts? Knowing that there is not much they can do about it, except for talking with a doctor, but even that can do only so much, because its not like a switch that you can turn on and off when ever you feel like. Its very unlikely that those people will put their dreams in to practise, they still have a moral compass working in the background, but that doesnt mean they dont suffer from those thoughts. If art can help those people, then yeah, at least its doing some good, I guess.