Good discussion, and I feel it's my duty to add another aspect about gore that I've come across. I've only seen a clip of "Crash" (1996), but ... I've posted someone's review from Rotten Tomatoes https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1076271_crash below.

Sonar
(should not be posting at all - working on an essential doc at the moment - should finish today, or tomorrow with a final proof read! We'll see how many more breaks I take! :-)

"After surviving a brutal car wreck, commercial director James Ballard finds himself slowly drawn to a mysterious subculture of people who have transformed automobile accidents into erotic events. Like the J.G. Ballard novel that inspired it, David Cronenberg's study of the sexual dimension of man's relationship to technology was a magnet for controversy, drawing a NC-17 rating and criticism from several sources, including studio owner Ted Turner, who attempted to prevent the film's American release. But though some have leveled charges of pornography, James' descent into this fetishistic underworld is approached with cold, scientific detachment. Characters like Vaughn, the charismatic group leader who stages recreations of celebrity car crashes, seem more like driven researchers than sexual renegades, which is undoubtedly part of the film's point. This impression is reinforced by the pristine cinematography by Peter Suschitzsky, which proves particularly haunting during a crucial accident scene, and Howard Shore's superb score. Far from exploitative, Crash in fact proves less transgressive than the original novel, but is still undoubtedly not for all tastes. ~ Judd Blaise, Rovi"

: That's an excellent question, Morgan.. Growing up with 4
: brothers, I tended to fish, dig worms, climb high and built
: tree houses, play G.I Joe and with Tonka Trucks on dirt
: trails but I also liked dressing up Barbie and got my
: brothers to play house or store.. We lived on a creek bank
: so finding critters (alive or dead) was a daily

: experience..

: Two of the other girls who grew up near me, also played in the
: dirt (so to speak) and we played hard .. One became an ER
: Trauma nurse and the other an EMT. None of us were really
: squeamish around gore. They worked with it every day but I
: didn't like it.

: I hate it when good TV shows are ruined (in my opinion) with
: gratuitous gore. Game of Thrones was disgusting. I watched
: the series because everyone said how great it was but was
: turned off by the constant disgusting scenes..

: Snakes, I don't like. I think that has to do with being bit by
: one on a fishing trip. My grand-daughter has a 2 foot
: bearded lizard named Jupiter that is pretty cool. Bugs,
: eh.. big deal..

: A long time ago, I read an article in readers digest that said
: people who like horror movies and gore were extreme risk
: takers and imaginative. They tended to value intensity,
: rebellion and edginess over common place.. People who were
: turned off by gore tended to be more empathic, they were
: less able to detach from the stories (movies) or the people
: in pain.

: I'm a mixture of the two, it seems.. And so are you. While I
: think you're more of the first persona, you saved animals
: and that shows a deeply caring empathic side...

: Lynda

: Are chicks programmed to be squeamish more so than sausage