# What is your tolerance for violence and gore? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 17, 2014, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-tolerance-for-violence-and-gore/698767 "2014-09-17T21:16:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2014, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-tolerance-for-violence-and-gore/698767/61 "2014-09-20T02:20:08Z")
I am female, and I have always had a marked interest in gore, but the internet has gone a very long way in slaking that thirst with plenty of the real deal, so these days it needs to be particularly interesting or unusual to catch my interest. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2014, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-tolerance-for-violence-and-gore/698767/62 "2014-09-20T02:29:06Z")
> [@chiroptera](#): > > I also have not and will not watch any of the recent stoning or beheading videos or anything like that. I accept that they happen, but I see no benefit to actually viewing such things. I learned the hard way that while I have a ridiculously high tolerance for the most disgusting and outrageous gore imaginable… itt needs to be either fake, or the only think I’m seeing is someone who is already dead. Once someone is dead they are just meat, it doesn’t faze me, but I made the mistake of watching a super up-close from the side forward throat slitting and I realized never again could I stand that. Completely different thing to see a real living person experiencing the horrible thing producint the gore. But the guy who cut himself in half with a band saw? Neat! ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2014, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-tolerance-for-violence-and-gore/698767/63 "2014-09-20T05:44:07Z")
I don’t know if “tolerance” is the right metric to use, at least for me. Count me among those who isn’t interested in torture porn, or even horror movies in general. In an action movie, though, I’d be fine with gunshot wounds being depicted realistically as **Sleel** described. I certainly don’t like real violence, though. I once watched an online video of some captive soldiers being killed in a rather gory manner. That is, each having his throat cut open with a combat knife. It wasn’t clean cuts either; more like their throats were sawed open. Watching that filled me with sorrow. It wasn’t the gore that bothered me, it was the killing and the helplessness of the captives. I can’t imagine ever wanting to watch something like that again. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2014, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-tolerance-for-violence-and-gore/698767/64 "2014-09-20T16:45:58Z")
The only time I can handle gore is when it’s so ridiculous it’s comical. See TWD. I can handle the zombie killing and occasional zombie attacks but when it became more about people killing each other I lost interest. I don’t enjoy slasher flicks at all and prefer not to even watch tv shows with violence. I voted the one before it but only because I don’t think I’ve ever seen Miss Marple. Is that a mystery? I have no patience for mysteries either. The rare time I watch tv shows it’s likely to be a family comedy, preferably animated. That sort of violence I can handle. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Paxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/50afbb/32.png) [@Paxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paxx)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2014, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-tolerance-for-violence-and-gore/698767/65 "2014-09-23T11:21:43Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > Sometime in my early forties I just kind of hit ’ Full Up’ ! > > I just lost any appetite and or tolerance for yet another murder scene, getting inside the head of some twisted criminal, seeing people shot, raped, murdered, tortured, etc, etc. and I have to say life got a little sweeter without exposure to such things Almost exactly my feelings. ---
**Author:** ![Sleel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@Sleel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleel)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2014, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-tolerance-for-violence-and-gore/698767/66 "2014-09-24T07:48:53Z")
Just remembered an incident from several years back. A woman I met was talking about how she thought [_The Passion of the Christ_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0335345/) was “torture porn”. I replied that if it had shown anything close to a realistic crucifixion it would never have gotten a rating lower than X. If anything, it was toned down from the real and casual brutality of the Iron Age in virtually all the civilized world. It’s a bizarre dichotomy. Only about 100 years ago, a hanging was a public event. Fun for the whole family! Bring your kids! Now, people are teetering on the border of calling child services if dad takes the kids hunting and they shoot and gut a deer, but heroic figures mowing down legions of mooks in a PG-13 movie is A-OK as long as it’s bloodless and cruelty-free organic range-fed ultraviolence. Show the real suffering someone would have if they were shot, and you get an automatic R. Portray violence in a stylized hermetically clean manner, and it’s not only deemed acceptable, but preferable. Make killing people look cool, and you’re golden! Got it. Sick society. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2014, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-tolerance-for-violence-and-gore/698767/67 "2014-09-24T12:20:06Z")
I love horror, violence and gore. Morbid fascination, but it has to be entirely fictional, as I can’t stand the sight of raw meat or watch surgical shows. Movies these days aren’t scary or violent enough, really. Takes a lot to move me. The latest fare like The Conjuring? Laughably tame. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-tolerance-for-violence-and-gore/698767.md?page=3)