This thread kind of took a different direction but I just wanted to point out how bizarre and not-real guro is most of the time, even the stuff that involves a mundane weapon like a sword or something is so heavily stylized and idealized I have to regard it as really separate from real or even realistic violence. Someone who faps to guro is much further from someone who faps to videos of real life violence than it seems superficially in my opinion, I have fapped to videos of real life violence but I considered that rather exceptional and felt sort of bad after. Hentai in general has lots of stuff in it that would be quite different in real life and guro is just an extreme form, albeit maybe one of the most.