Top 15 Facts You Didn’t Know About Game of Thrones

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15. George R.R. Martin On Sex Vs. Violence

George R.R. Martin described his stance on sex vs. violence in the first novel of his A Song of Ice and Fire series, Game of Thrones, on numerous occasions, having been questioned about the extensive sexual content in the novel and subsequently the HBO’s TV adaptation.

Not surprisingly, the author prefers sex over violence and has defended his position by providing a rather vivid explanation:

“I can describe an axe entering a human skull in great explicit detail and no one will blink twice at it. I provide a similar description, just as detailed, of a penis entering a vagina, and I get letters about it and people swearing off. To my mind this is kind of frustrating, it’s madness. Ultimately, in the history of the world, penises entering vaginas have given a lot of people a lot of pleasure; axes entering skulls, well, not so much.”