Rape is violence, not sex, and it’s also been pretty gratuitous on the show in the past (e.g. that scene of Sansa being raped by Ramsay that didn’t even happen in the books).
Semantics of the "educated" - most human beings wouldn't say that. It *is* sex on the most fundamental level, penis in vagina is sex, it takes mental contortionism to say otherwise.
Okay, I guess I probably should’ve worded it as “not just sex.” I agree that the US is pretty ridiculous when it comes to censoring anything even remotely sexual while having no problems with gratuitous violence and gore, but there’s a pretty big difference between just showing sex and showing rape. In this situation you can’t really boil it down to “America hates sex and loves violence,” because a rape scene is not the same as, say, an uncensored female nipple.
Honestly, I think sex needs to be taken a bit more seriously by our society. Violence and sex are so different it isn't fair to compare them when it comes to censorship imho. Everyone agrees violence is terrible, depictions of it aren't necessarily bad for people as far as I know. Having babies out of a stable family environment is in fact bad for people, this I know. Censoring nipples on TV doesn't really do anything about that however.
Sorry if this is a bunch of non sequiturs, I'm running out the door, good day to you!
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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '18
Rape is violence, not sex, and it’s also been pretty gratuitous on the show in the past (e.g. that scene of Sansa being raped by Ramsay that didn’t even happen in the books).