It seems like nobody has brought up the relevant issue of pornography. There are aspects of typical dominant male sexuality that bear some connection to sadism. Maybe it causes it, maybe it just synergizes. If you desensitize yourself to gore, you have drilled a tunnel at rock bottom. If you ever fall deep into porn, you will fall much further.
Male anal homosexuality is literally gore. The inflicting party in a male homosexual act is typically a retarded and tasteless sadist. Being an obsessed goremoder is proto-gay.
Fast-forward decomposition can be interesting or used in a tastefully artistic way, but it still isn't much of anything and anything involving a ruined humanoid form is disgusting. Mushrooms growth->death cycle looks pretty cool but that's hardly gore even if it's growing out of a fox or something.