Even if it is fiction, everything conveys a message. If the message being conveyed is that one can obtain pleasure from hurting others without their consent and no one censors it, what does it mean? That it's okay? That no one is going to do anything about it? In the past, things that today seem atrocious and illegal to us have been normalized, but at that time everyone would give you the same message: 'It's normal, why would it be censored? It doesn't hurt anyone,' when in reality it hurt many.
I’m not sure if I expressed myself well.