Christopher-
What about pictures of: Dead, bloody people (common on european TV)
Are they? It's been a while since I last watched TV, but my impression always was that US TV is more violent than Euro-TV. I may be wrong, of course.
Answer: Depends on context - we don't needlessly throw pictures of "dead, bloody" people into articles. Why would we? An article about decompensation, rigor mortis etc. might include an image, but obviously, the more generally offensive such a picture would be, the more likely we would want to link to it instead of displaying it inline.
Drug paraphenalia
Sure, no problem.
Step by step bomb making
Could be legally problematic.
Deformed lifeforms from genetic experiments
Sure, if they warrant an article.
Injured people from combat (limbs tangled, guts spilled, heads disfigured)
Definitely, but only in an article that is explicitly about the effects of war; in a main article about war they should be linked to.
Medical pictures of diseased bodypart
Definitely useful, but preferably link instead of displaying inline.
War crimes (remember the photo of the US officer executing a vietnamese during the vietnam war?)
Definitely, see above re: combat.
Sexual acts, such as penetration, arousal, nipple clamps, bondage, etc.
Legally problematic. Nipple clamps no problem.
Domestic violence
Link to.
Aborted Foetuses
Link to.
Regards,
Erik