Streetwise ... do you honestly think that just because you don't see rape in a 'hard core' sense (to paraphrase what you said) it's not horrific and disturbing. Sansa's rape was made all the more nasty by Theon's (enforced and unwilling) voyeurism. We did not need to see the act itself to feel the terror in that room. There are several 'casual' verbal references to rape throughout .... as I said before, in.....”
Such dishonestly. I said that the show doesn’t feature hard core sex. I didn’t use the term “hard core” in relation to rape. But you knew that.
Game of thrones does not contain any hard core sex scenes at all.
I also said that to counter claims that it’s full of rape scenes that this isn’t true. It isn’t. I can think of only one on screen.
Those who say that they wouldn’t “let” their teen kids watch it, for these reasons, would you stop them from reading the books? I doubt it.
Streetwise ... you've clearly not read my previous post properly. I never said you'd used the term 'hard core'. In fact, as stated, I was paraphrasing your use of 'soft core' to defend your belief that the sex in GoT wasn't graphic.
In turn, I was trying to illustrate that we do not need to see ultra explicit (i.e. 'hard core') sex scenes in order to be shocked or horrified by them. Not in a 'disgusted of Tunbridge Wells' sense but because they are non consensual and/or violent and/or incestuous and/or underage. As an adult who is well versed in all things GoT related I wasn't surprised by such scenes but they still had an emotional impact which I personally wouldn't wish to impose on a teenage child who isn't as worldly wise as me and who could potentially be very upset by such concepts being brought to life.
Nothing I said was dishonest thank you very much so cut the snark.
As to there 'only' being one rape scene on screen that is patently untrue. I mentioned a number of examples previously .... Jaime/Cersei, Ramsay/Sansa, Dothraki raiders attacking Lhazareen women, a Northern soldier attacking a woman in the battle for King's Landing. And I gave further examples where rape is very clearly implied as it involved children FFS .... Craster's wife-daughters, and Meryn Trant's pedophlic demands in the brothel. The whole point I was trying to make was that you don't have to see rape in all its horrific reality for it to exist within the story and be very clearly signposted. You seem utterly determined to minimise this aspect of the GoT story for god knows what reason which feels quite disturbing.
As for the books ... no, absolutely not. For similar reasons as already discussed. In many respects the books are more explicit.