Quote Originally Posted by Discord View Post
Ummm... well, I wasn't really refering to "torture films" which are made for pornographic purposes. I still find them disgusting, but I guess some people get excited by that sort of thing. I do however have problems with imagining that most people who went into Hostel did it because they wanted to get the sexual climax of their lives.
No, torture porn doesn't mean it's for sexual purposes, it means it's gratuitous and has no redeeming features. It's just torture for the sake of watching torture, like porn is sex for the sake of watching sex.