

You need something to break up all the beheading, impaling, and disemboweling. And sex is often a relief-for the characters and the viewers. Nine years of battles, intrigue, dragons, zombies and 500 different people saying 'winter is coming' have led us to the final season of HBOs Game of Thrones. Game of Thrones is loaded with hidden stories most fans missed (or never heard about). The showrunners are not above giving us some Emilia Clarke fan service to keep our attention while guy-whose-name-we-can’t-remember rambles about a subplot we’ll quickly forget. 25 Hidden Plotlines Everyone Missed In Game Of Thrones. (Though if the power-sex turns into sadism, à la Joffrey or Ramsay, you might be headed for a precipitous downfall.) Of course, sometimes bare boobs are just bare boobs. Level of whimsy : Drawing a little face on a potato 28. If you're demanding it the way Daenerys tells her bearded underling to strip, it's a good sign you're in charge. This is another character that has no last name because it’s too hard to think of this many last names.

Sex is wielded in Westeros, like everything else, as a form of power. Sure, the HBO fantasy drama has (not unfairly) developed a reputation for gratuitous violence and sexual relations of all configurations-man on woman, man on man, sorceress on man, brother on sister-but some of that stuff matters. Not all sex on Game of Thrones is created equal.
