What is this cultural fascination with war and violence in the

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What is this cultural fascination with war and violence in the modern media, while these being a strong tabu in actual west society? If you ask someone about experiencing violence he certainly would avoid it and judge it as bad. If you actually put someone in a situation where violence is present or required, I mean some real blood or death, people tend to become shocked, wordless, full of panic.
Meanwhile more 'human' and harmless concepts like sexuality and nudity are much less accepted in common media and handled as tabu much more. Concepts like love, compassion and goodness are normally seeing as 'gay' and have much less place in the public media.
Interesting is that most consumers of 'violence products' are people who actually never went to war, harmed or even killed something - people like ''I eat flesh but would never kill a chicken''.
Death is a ever worser theme. People avoid thinking about it like hell, as it were the worst moment in life, but they keep watching deaths in movies and TV everyday. If some shitskinns die by famine, it's no problem at all, but if someone is shooted in my quartier, oh my god, it's the end of the world!
Don't understand me wrong, I love meat, I love to do some heavy sparring and I respect aggressiveness and violence as being essential in human nature. I never killed something, but I would do it if necessary, whatever if I like it or not. But for fucks sake, most violence in media is just pointless, disgusting and has a heavy load of negativity, how can people enjoy such shit?
Is this fascination a proof of great hypocrisy in today's human behavior?

Pic related. If I would post a comic with boobs, I would be banned. But some blood is ok.