Author explains lack of gay sex in "Game of Thrones"

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August 12, 2014 | Arts / Entertainment

Author explains lack of gay sex in "Game of Thrones"

Gays in Game of Thrones George RR Martin gets asked a lot of questions about his A Song of Fire and Ice novels (the series that spawned the HBO hit Game of Thrones). When will the next novel be written? Why did he kill so-and-so? Who will rule Westeros?

Another popular question: why don't his books have more explicit gay sex scenes?

In the TV series, there have been a few intimate moments between two men. However, such scenes are not common in the books. During his appearance at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Martin was asked about this.

"Because none of the viewpoint characters are gay, there are no explicit gay sex scenes in the early books," he answered. "A television show doesn't have those limitations. Will that change? It might. I've had letters from fans who want me to present particularly an explicit male sex scene – most of the letters come from women."

He added: "I'm not going to do it just for the sake of doing it. If the plot lends itself to that, if one of my viewpoint characters is in a situation, then I'm not going to shy away from it, but you can't just insert things because everyone wants to see them.

"It is not a democracy. If it was a democracy, then Joffrey [the sadistic boy king] would have died much earlier than he did."