{"id":33856,"date":"2012-06-22T12:17:06","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T16:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=33856"},"modified":"2013-01-29T10:45:28","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T15:45:28","slug":"coitus-more-ferarum-in-game-of-thrones-nsfw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/22\/coitus-more-ferarum-in-game-of-thrones-nsfw\/","title":{"rendered":"Coitus More Ferarum [NSFW]"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Now that Game of Thrones<\/em> has aired its second season, there has been no shortage of commentary about the amount of skin and sex on the Emmy-winning HBO drama. Viewers have taken notice of the gratuitous nudity and graphic fucking, which are sometimes necessary, and sometimes incidental, to the plot. I\u2019ve noticed something else, something more specific: from rape within an arranged marriage to sibling fucking, it seems like the sexual beings of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros speak two primary languages, fellatio and doggy style.<\/p>\n

Why do I care? Besides being an obsequious and social consumer of television (I host Game of Thrones <\/em>night weekly at my house), I\u2019m a writer of short fiction who has also published erotica under the pseudonym Olivia Glass. My story \u201cDrought\u201d was published in the (sadly now defunct) women\u2019s sex magazine Filament<\/em> and was selected by Violet Blue to appear in Best Women\u2019s Erotica 2012<\/em>, from Cleis Press. I\u2019m always interested in sex as it is presented to us\u2014in literature, film, and art\u2014in that it is both a reflection of what we think, and a reflection of what we think those consuming the art want to see.<\/p>\n

So what\u2019s happening in Game of Thrones<\/em>? What does it mean that the primary sexual positions in a highly sexualized show are those of domination?<\/p>\n

And, more specifically, what\u2019s up with doggy style?<\/p>\n

Doggy style\u2014coitus more ferarum<\/em>, or \u201csex in the manner of beasts\u201d\u2014needs no real introduction. Regardless of actual doggy style as it is performed by actual people, we can agree that it\u2019s less visually intimate than other sexual positions in which partners are able to gaze into each other\u2019s eyes. (I\u2019m not going to touch on fellatio here, but fellatio has a similar problem in that it\u2019s visually nonintimate, and like male-on-female doggy style, is never reciprocated in GoT<\/em>.)<\/p>\n

Doggy style seems to be part of a larger sexual coding in this universe. Transgressive sex\u2014an extremely wide category in this case that includes sex with prostitutes, sibling incest, rape, pseudo-lesbian sex lessons\u2014happens in the form of doggy style. Even the scene between Theon Greyjoy and a woman he does not yet realize is his sister involves Theon riding behind her, groping her breasts and sliding his hand down her pants. Not doggy style per se, but a similar expression of physical domination. (And the most awkward family reunion ever.) Though she holds the metaphorical ace in this scene, the code still exists and is only overturned when the truth is revealed.<\/p>\n

The reasons for this coding system (whether it\u2019s intentional or not) seem obvious\u2014doggy-style sex is, visually, all about power\u2014one figure (male) \u201ctaking\u201d another (female). Several excellent articles have talked about how Game of Thrones<\/em> manages all sex as an expression of power on behalf of the female characters, but the immediate visual cue is one of no intimacy, love, or pleasure for the receiving partner.<\/p>\n

The first instance of doggy-style sex in the entire series, appearing in the first episode, \u201cWinter Is Coming,\u201d involves Jaime Lannister fucking his sister, Queen Cersei, from behind, in a tower at Winterfell. Discovered by one of Ned Stark\u2019s sons, Jaime stands up and shoves the boy out of a tower window. The brutality of the push is unexpected to viewers who haven\u2019t read the source material, but it\u2019s undeniable that there\u2019s something weirdly natural about Jaime moving from mounting to an act of violence. Trying to imagine the same scene with Cersei and Jaime facing each other\u2014with him scrambling up from gazing lovingly into his sister\u2019s eyes\u2014is harder than you\u2019d expect.<\/p>\n

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The coding, though, is clearest when inverted. We see the progression of the relationship between Daenerys\u2014daughter of a disposed despot, sold into marriage by her wicked brother\u2014and Drogo, leader of the horse-riding desert tribe that seeks entrance into the kingdoms. Disturbing racial coding aside\u2014The New Yorker<\/em> called it \u201chead-clutchingly problematic\u201d\u2014the sexual message is not different from any other previous encounter. The arranged marriage begins with (doggy-style) rape\u2014a departure from the pseudoconsensual marriage night scene in the book. Only when Daenerys asks her handmaiden how to please a man do we see anything happening face-to-face. And when Daenerys encourages Drogo to have sex facing each other (\u201cTonight I would look upon your face\u201d), not only does the tenor change\u2014from rape to pleasurable, even romantic sex\u2014but a child is conceived from that union. The code is clear: doggy-style is rape-y, domineering, sexist. But the purity of face-to-face sex is so great that it can turn a brutish rapist into a loving husband. Babies are born from gazing into each other\u2019s eyes.<\/p>\n

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There are exceptions to the coding, of course. Prior to feeling up his sister, Theon is on a ship having sex with the daughter of the captain. The scene is painful in its cruelty: she loves him, he couldn\u2019t care less about her, but they are having sex face-to-face, and almost slowly, in a way that could almost be tender, but true to form, even that scene ends with Theon letting her know how little he cares about her, before turning her over to take her from behind.<\/p>\n

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In his take on the sexual politics of Game of Thrones<\/em>, Scott Meslow of The Atlantic<\/em> says<\/a>,<\/p>\n

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I suspect that the main reason Game of Thrones<\/em> has drawn so much criticism for its sexual content is that it\u2019s a fantasy series. The Sopranos<\/em> regularly featured sex scenes every bit as explicit (and sometimes as discomforting) as the ones in Game of Thrones<\/em>\u2014but that was a gangster drama. For decades, viewers have been conditioned to expect fantasy to be fantastical. But unlike previous fantasy series, like the whimsical Hercules: The Legendary Journeys<\/em>, or films like the Lord of the Rings<\/em> trilogy, Game of Thrones<\/em> is every bit as gritty and troubling as the real world. That takes some getting used to.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Are troublesome sexual politics the sole property of the realm of science fiction\/fantasy? Hardly. But the unfamiliarity of the medieval-style world of Westeros\u2014where an undead army marches on the kingdom, dragons and shadow-babies are born, and naked women never seem to have any pubic hair\u2014is very easy to impress with our existing biases on the relative intimacy of sexual positions. And why wouldn\u2019t they? Game of Thrones<\/em> is so overrun with characters and plotlines that sexual shorthand seems almost a necessity at times, if an unfortunate one.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m just waiting for them to start complicating the shorthand and showing some tender reverse cowgirl and angry cunnilingus.<\/p>\n

Carmen Maria Machado<\/a> is a graduate of the Iowa Writers\u2019 Workshop. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in <\/em>Unstuck,<\/em> Indiana Review, and <\/em>Opium Magazine.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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