[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.

[murphE]

You wrote than any writer who even dreams this stuff up is without morals or virtue.

No, that's not what I said. I said that moral people who "dream up this stuff" do not write about it in graphic detail for public consumption.