# Game of Thrones nudity **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 30, 2012, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-nudity/620458 "2012-04-30T23:44:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-nudity/620458/1 "2012-04-30T23:44:12Z")
I have never read the books and I don’t have HBO so I don’t watch the show. However, [this article](http://www.twincities.com/entertainment/ci_20510572/skin-is-wearing-thin-game-thrones), reposted on a number of news sites, seems to be aghast at the sheer amount of nudity on the show. Am I going to need to get this show from Redbox or something? ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-nudity/620458/2 "2012-04-30T23:53:11Z")
There is a lot of nudity, both male and female - not all of it people you want to see naked, but a good part of it… And sex (mm (albeit, not much), mf (lots), ff (lots)…no groups that I can think of, though). ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-nudity/620458/3 "2012-04-30T23:57:14Z")
There is lots and lots of gratuitous sex. Watch SNL from a few weeks ago-- they did a great spoof. I think you’ll have to get it form OnDemand, as I don’t believe it’s available on hulu or youtube. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2012, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-nudity/620458/4 "2012-05-01T00:10:31Z")
I get the feeling there wouldn’t be such a fuzz made about it if it wasn’t for the gay sex. ---
**Author:** ![GoodOmens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@GoodOmens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoodOmens)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2012, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-nudity/620458/5 "2012-05-01T00:11:54Z")
It’s rather jarring in comparison to the books. There’s quite a bit of sex in the books, to be sure, but the show (at least the first season, I haven’t seen the new season yet) ramps it enough that it feels gratuitous. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2012, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-nudity/620458/6 "2012-05-01T00:12:12Z")
All I could think reading the article was… Next Headline: “HBO subscriptions up 10%, Game of the Thrones ratings up 40%” And then of course I noted that season 1 was available on iTunes for $38.99… ---
**Author:** ![Scupper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Scupper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scupper)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2012, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-nudity/620458/7 "2012-05-01T00:17:17Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > I get the feeling there wouldn’t be such a fuzz made about it if it wasn’t for the gay sex. I don’t care what kind of sex it is. There’s too much of it. Not because I don’t like a good sex scene – I’m fine with that. But it takes up too much damn screen time and it’s unnecessary. Save it for the DVD, HBO, please. I promise I’ll watch it then. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2012, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-nudity/620458/8 "2012-05-01T00:19:46Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > I get the feeling there wouldn’t be such a fuzz made about it if it wasn’t for the gay sex. Nope. There’s just a lot of sex. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2012, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-nudity/620458/9 "2012-05-01T00:21:54Z")
I’ve only seen the first season. Great series, highly recommend and not just for the sex, which is a little short of gratuitous, IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![lisiate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@lisiate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisiate)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2012, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-nudity/620458/10 "2012-05-01T00:28:19Z")
I’m with **scupper** on this one, to my mind the addition of so much gratuitious sexposition is my major gripe with the series so far. Having said that though there’s about as much in _Spartacus_ and I don’t recall any great outcry over that. ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2012, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-nudity/620458/11 "2012-05-01T00:29:22Z")
Gratuitous. Nudity. I can’t… I just… I can’t get those two words to make sense together. ---
**Author:** ![Scupper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Scupper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scupper)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2012, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-nudity/620458/12 "2012-05-01T00:38:51Z")
> [@Astroboy14](#): > > Gratuitous. Nudity. > > I can’t… I just… I can’t get those two words to make sense together. Imagine a series based on Hamlet, and then add scenes of Hamlet and Ophelia fucking while they, and other characters, deliver monologues that aren’t in the play. They may be good additions or meh. It varies. But they will occur during sex scenes that have no other impact on the story. Now imagine that happening an average of twice per one-hour episode. That is the sex scenes in Game of Thrones, in a nutshell. ---
**Author:** ![Lasciel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@Lasciel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lasciel)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2012, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-nudity/620458/13 "2012-05-01T01:14:03Z")
All I know is that somewhere I read someone talking about the “exposition lesbians” that show up and somewhere in the back of my brain went “why aren’t we watching this?” (yes, I refer to myself in the plural a lot) ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2012, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-nudity/620458/14 "2012-05-01T01:27:55Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > I get the feeling there wouldn’t be such a fuzz made about it if it wasn’t for the gay sex. Really? I’d imagine that 90%+ of all the sex talk about the show is about Ros the sexposition whore and that the lesbian fingerbanging scene was talked about more than all the other sex put together. ---
**Author:** ![typoink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@typoink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typoink)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2012, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-nudity/620458/15 "2012-05-01T02:13:41Z")
I seem to be in the minority, but I LIKE the sex additions to the series but DON’T usually like gratuitous sex scenes. Hard to explain why, but I think they tend to be very revealing, and sex-as-power is a pretty major theme in the books. Off-camera subtlety doesn’t work well on TV. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2012, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-nudity/620458/16 "2012-05-01T02:51:08Z")
My God, we are a prudish nation. Naturally, no one complains about the graphic violence. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2012, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-nudity/620458/17 "2012-05-01T02:52:21Z")
Violence doesn’t do an adequate enough job of separating grown up fantasy from kid’s stuff, so I like the double helping of sex and more importantly sexuality. One of the few points of reference for the general-non-book-reading public is likely Lord of the Rings which is asexual and quaint by comparison. I like the depictions of these characters as sexual beings because it rounds them out as characters. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2012, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-nudity/620458/18 "2012-05-01T02:59:41Z")
> [@Spoke](#): > > My God, we are a prudish nation. > > Naturally, no one complains about the graphic violence. Yeah, I think they are all butt-hurt over the gay sex. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2012, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-nudity/620458/19 "2012-05-01T03:00:24Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > Yeah, I think they are all butt-hurt over the gay sex. Not literally, I hope! ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2012, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-nudity/620458/20 "2012-05-01T03:00:54Z")
> [@Scupper](#): > > Imagine a series based on Hamlet, and then add scenes of Hamlet and Ophelia fucking while they, and other characters, deliver monologues that aren’t in the play. They may be good additions or meh. It varies. But they will occur during sex scenes that have no other impact on the story. > > Now imagine that happening an average of twice per one-hour episode. > > That is the sex scenes in Game of Thrones, in a nutshell. That sounds fantastic to me. I, for one, don’t think there’s anything excessive or gratuitous about the nudity or sex. I’ve always wanted a serious drama with good storytelling that routinely employed nudity and explicit sexuality. And I’m loving it. So far as I am concerned, they can double the nudity and the sex and not harm the show. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-nudity/620458.md?page=2)