When I first read Argentum's post I thought, people actually argue that the enormous amount of sexual violence against women in Game of Thrones is simply to show who is villainous? Then I realized what you've said Pug, that it's somewhat historically accurate. But at the same time, GoT is fiction, and doesn't actually depict any sort of actual history - although it's supposed to parallel the Middle Ages... I guess.
And so saying, I think it's kind of bullshit. I think they do it because a lot of people do actually like rape scenes and they get off on it (figuratively, although I don't doubt some literally as well). Or just pure shock value, which always works. But there is a lot of torture of men too, which I noticed doesn't seem to happen as much to women. Women are raped or outright killed, men are systematically tortured or killed, both horrific and degrading, so... maybe it evens out in the end.
:thinking:
