[murphE]

Every gothic writer who ever penned a piece is without morality or virtue because they depicted the darker portions of the human soul? Every mystery writer who ever created a fictional gumshoe has no morals or virtue because they depicted human vice as well?

No. There are ways of depicting evil without being pornographic. Some authors can do this well, others just write to titillate.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

No. There are ways of depicting evil without being pornographic. Some authors can do this well, others just write to titillate.

Given, but that's not the statement you made, was it? You wrote than any writer who even dreams this stuff up is without morals or virtue.