>>88023487"Arousal" and "macabre fascination" aren't the same sort of excitement. It's a different type of excitement, which is *why* the difference happens.
You're conflating a sexual attraction to violence and its aftereffects to bloodsport and gore that derives from it.
They're *technically* the same in that they're both gory content, but that's being overly reductive by intentionally ignoring the intent of each.
I'm certain people masturbate to MK fatalities and whatnot gory shit, but "normal people," the ones who dislike guro in places like twitter (a largely "public space" open to 13 year olds) enough to hound people that make it, would also think someone that masturbates to Kitana getting her spine ripped out is weird and shouldn't be open about that fact to society at large.
"Gore in media meant to shock/excite the bloodsport desire" =/= "gore in media meant to arouse sexually" is my entire point.