The third season of "Game of Thrones" has come to a close, which means it's time for us to continue our highly scientific study of sex and nudity in the acclaimed HBO series.
While "Game of Thrones" offers up a multitude of feminist role models,
it has often been criticized for its gratuitous sex scenes. Perhaps
this is part of the reason Season 3 reduced the amount of sex and
nudity, at least in frequency. Where the first and second seasons
featured sex and/or nudity in 10 out of 10 and 8 out of 10 episodes,
respectively, the third season got sexually explicit in only 5 out of
10. However, when it came to the duration of scenes with sex and nudity,
the third season has both the first and second beat with a total of
roughly 8 minutes and 30 seconds per scene. By comparison, the first
season had 8 minutes and 10 seconds and the second season had 7 minutes
and 40 seconds.
"Game of Thrones" Season 3 also seemed to have a higher diversity of
nudity, with a notable influx of male backsides and even a few flashes
of male full–frontal. Of course, it wouldn’t be "Game of Thrones"
without also including a few trips to Lord Baelish’s bordello, but on
the whole, the sex this season felt more organic to the story than in
the past -- alternately steamy (Jon Snow FINALLY losing his v-card) and
terrifying (Theon's last romp before being mutilated into an "SNL" parody), but always captivating.
Below ,The Huffington Post has included a compilation of all the
nudity and sex scenes from "Game of Thrones" Season 3, for your own
research purposes. Please feel free to weigh in with your own theories
in the comments below!
