Oh dear. This again?

Short of relying on overly harsh censorship, society is always going have to enforce its own sense of discretion and good taste. Unfortunately this means there will be plenty of rubbish produced, since there are many people with no sense of either, but it doesn't necessarily follow that everything resulting is degenerate and void of all artistic merit.

After all, as we know from Sturgeon's Law, ninety percent of everything is crap, and ninety percent of people lack the ability to distinguish between what is crap and what is not. The key here is to ignore the bad and concentrate on what is good; because in simply being bad, the rest is not worth taking seriously in the first place. The best thing to do is to focus on cultivating the ability to distinguish the good from the rubbish—in order to do so, it may be necessary to re-examine one's own criteria.

For my part, I'm far more offended by crass portrayals of violence than of sex, because violence is a much more disturbing and harmful thing. I don't really care if people are aroused by portrayals of sex, since being aroused is kind of important to the whole idea of having sex in the first place (lol), but it is generally more artistically justifiable to include it when it is suitable for story purposes, rather than for its own sake.