This Sunday, the HBO series Game Of Thrones returns for a new season – pretty much everyone I know is extremely excited about this, myself included. (Do follow Game of Thrones on Twitter or Facebook.)
What better way to get primed for the return than a NSFW walk down memory lane with a revisit of the hottest sex scenes from the first season of Game of Thrones?
There is a huge gallery after the jump to help us remember our favorite scenes…
Petyr Baelish (Littefinger, Aiden Gillan) instructing Ros (Esmé Bianco) and Armeca (former porn star Sahara Knite) to have girl-girl anal sex. Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage) and Ros (Esmé Bianco) romping – and oh hell, just Ros (Esmé Bianco) with anyone… Especially that scene where Ros gets done by a well-hung, uncut Theon Greyjoy (Alfie Allen) who clearly is sweet on her.
The rough, and later romantic, sex scenes between Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) and Khal Drogo (Jason Momoa). And let’s not forget the girl-girl scene where Daenerys Targaryen is schooled in the art of taking the upper hand with sex by Doreah (Roxanne McKee). I particularly liked that Daenerys finds her center when she takes ownership of her sexual self, and that’s where the character becomes a powerful woman.
A friend called it “Lord Of The Rings for adults” and I agree, though it’s so much more than that. Not just a pop culture phenom, the story is rich, layered and deliciously complicated by sex, relationships, politics, gender role conflicts and much more – in addition to the fact that it is pure eye candy. And the sex in it can range from disturbing to I-want-to-try-that hot.
In case you missed the controversy when HBO’s Game of Thrones launched, the sex depicted in the series ruffled a number of uptight feathers when the show first hit small screens. It wasn’t just the usual hypocritical American prudery (though there was plenty of that reaction). The supercharged and plentiful sexual content in Game of Thrones had some critics saying its sex and unflinching full-frontal nudity was unnecessary. One bizarre accusation from a NYT writer stated that the series was “porn for women” – that the sex had been layered on to get women to watch the show (!?) because women would not watch fantasy otherwise.
These critics clearly didn’t know that the TV series actually has less – and far more tame sex – than the books on which it is based. The same critics also pissed off a whole lot of female fantasy (genre) fans, and a whole lot of women that actually do watch real porn. As if ‘porn for women’ is an insult to level at the uncultured; as if ‘porn for women’ is a bad thing.
What the Game Of Thrones sex controversies showed me is that American TV critics have a lot to learn about storytelling. The sex-squeamish critics are not true storytelling fans. Storytelling – whether crime, horror, fantasy, sci-fi ar anything that’s worth a damn contains sex. Period. Not just predictable sex tropes: sex that is far more redeeming, ethically errant, character-flawing and essential as all other storytelling elements. Game of Thrones nailed it.
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Sahara is a former porn actress? When did she quit?