To let 13 year old DS watch Game of Thrones?

[kitnkaboodle]

We are 4-5 years behind the rest of the world, obv .. I gave DS DVD of the first series in his Xmas stocking. It had a 15 cert on the box, which I gauge to be ok for DS. However, disks inside are variously labelled 15 and 18. From what I can tell, though, the sex scenes seem to be 1960s soft porn-y (yet quite frequent - and gratuitous!) Not sure .. I think I'm probably ok with it. He's quite chilled. Any thoughts? Any shockers to come??

Hell no. I couldn't even watch it with my husband.

Its absolutely fine for a teenager. It's a bit much some times but so is the world.

I don't let my 15 & 17 year old girls watch it. Far too graphic but also so violent. No way would I let a 13 year old watch it.

Plenty of time for watching stuff like this when 18+

I was still quite shocked when I watched it. Maybe I've left a sheltered life!

I cannot believe the posters on here saying it's fine. I know its a very small minority but even so. I'm completely shocked that anyone would allow a child of younger than about 17 to watch.

No way! It's not just that it has sex scenes but that these are often raunchy and occasionally violent/exploitative.

Joffrey and his crossbow with naked girl all trussed up? No way would I let a 13 yr old watch that.

I'm quite lax with age ratings but no I wouldn't allow a 13 year old to watch it. My DS is 7 and is desperate to watch it, he's obviously seen it on my planner so knows I watch it and some of his (7 year old) school friends have apparently watched it (not sure how true that is). I've explained there are too many adult themes and I'll maybe allow him to watch it at 16. I can't believe the age rating is a 15 though, I'd have put the whole series as 18.

I Claudius is like the Teddy Bears Picnic compared to G of T.

Yes the bit where Caligula murders his pregnant sister is horrid but it was still like watching a stage play. In G of T it's like watching it in real life.

Wonders what I Claudius would be like if remade by the G of T producers ....

I don't have a 13 year old yet but it would depend on what she's like. If she's anything like I was at 13 I'd probably let her watch it with me.

TBH although there is a lot of sex I think the worst bits are the sadistic torture - Joffrey and Ramsay Bolton.

I started watching it with Dd when she was 14. I had no idea of the content so was a bit shocked to say the least!! She's just turned 16 and can't wait for the next series.

Jesus Christ. I was thinking of watching the series, I think I'll pass now, just hearing about it will give me nightmares. It sounds brutal!

Please don't let your 13yr child watch this!

No.

I like Game of Thrones - but it has disturbing themes, a lot of graphic violence and graphic sex scenes - sexual violence and torture and mutilation and they are not afraid to graphically kill people. It's definitely an adult series.

I think the way women are portrayed isn't that bad - yes they have violence against them and massive discrimination - but they are proper propel - they have flaws they plot make mistakes - they have their own drives and ambitions and they are very different. They are not just pretty scenery that occasional talks.

DearMrDilkington it is brutal, but it is the best thing on television. Great acting, great story, breathtaking settings, it's the whole package.

In my opinion, it is not suitable viewing for a 13 year old. I have watched every episode.

I strongly suggested to DS1 that he should wait until he was 16 before watching it, explaining that it was very violent, including scenes of rape and torture. Apart from 1 episode watched at a friend's house when he was 15, he took my advice. While he was waiting, he read the books.

DS2 (14) has also asked to watch it. We told him that he needed to wait until he was 16, but could read the books. He is making his way through them and has read four or five books so far.

It's not the tits. It's the psychological grimness I'd worry about an impressionable child watching. That and the gruesome torture bits

Wow. I'm 43 and I won't watch it myself - can't cope with graphic violence!

I wouldn't be happy having my 16 year old watch it.

Is there a lot of pressure from his friends at school to watch it?

I don't understand all the posts saying they don't like how women are portrayed? Arya, Sansa, Cersei, danaerys, Caitlin, yara, all string and dominant women who decide their own destiny, even the background women are shown to have minds of their own. I love that a woman I likely to end up on the iron throne!

ImYourMama I agree, the women were definitely on top last season, yes there is a lot of sexual violence but there is also a lot of strong, powerful, dominant women. The men have it no better, they have to fear death and the chopping off of limbs (and penis) as much as the women need to fear rape. The brutality takes no prisoners.

DH & I are both 34, and found it so monotonously rapey that it was too much for us, so I certainly wouldn't give it to a child to watch!

My DC have all read the books. we have a mix of under and over 18's and if a scene is too graphic in my opinion I fast forward it - really simple and easy to do.

we do discuss the themes as well - torture, indiscriminate killing, brutality - because these are around all the time on the news.

I wouldn't want the younger ones to watch it on their own with no parental intervention possible and no discussion afterwards. War is brutal. power struggles are brutal and nice people do nasty things.

I am just reading the books myself and whilst some of it is uncomfortable reading its gripping and in parts well written.

personally I would sooner my under 18's watched GOT with me than participated in some of the 15 or 18 shoot and kill computer games where they are the violent ones controlling the violence. but each to their own I guess.

No, dds are 13 and 11 and very curious about it, but there's no way they're watching it for a few years yet.

They have 'friends' at school who've been watching it since they were 10 though .