Fiona wrote: <While I have no objection to violence, suffering or torture in a storyline, and I agree that these aren't always eroticised, there's something about the thought of pain making someone more beautiful that *does* have disturbing overtones to me.>
Can I ask something of everyone? Does the use of violence as humour - as 'a source of innocent merriment' - also have disturbing, if different, overtones? I'm not so much talking about real cartoon violence a la the Road Runner (which I like, though I always disliked Tom & Jerry) but that using film and therefore real people - Monty Python and A Fish Called Wanda come immediately to mind, but I'm sure there are others (again, graphic violence isn't my thing, so I don't watch a lot of these).
And it's an area I *don't* recall seeing a lot of B7 fiction in
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