<em>Game of Thrones</em>: Making Sense of All the Sex

“Kings traveled across the world for a night with Irogenia. Magisters sold their palaces. Khals burned her enemies just to have her for a few hours. They say a thousand men proposed to her... and she refused them all.”
–Doreah

Let’s talk about sex.

There were a wide range of responses to the sexual content of last week's Game of Thrones series premiere, “Winter Is,” with some writers the show as realistic and frank, and others that its sexual dynamics were simplistic and offensive. Those who were bothered by the sex scenes in “Winter Is Coming” aren't likely to feel any differently after this week's episode, “The Kingsroad.”