EyeShotFirst said:

Game of Thrones. I enjoy the show, but every five minutes somebody is doing some raunchy doggystyle rompin, and it serves no purpose other than to fill HBO's titties 'n' ass quota.

It's like complaining about people eating noisy snacks in the cinema. If it wasn't happening, the enterprise wouldn't be commercially viable.

As long as GOT continues being well written, well acted, intelligent and with ridculously high production values, I'm happy if they throw in some skin for the lowest common denominator because I know if it didn't have that titilation, the show would be cancelled.

I've noted that in many later episodes they just open with a sex scene to grab the interest of such people and with them duly suckered, continue with an hour of sex-free high culture LOL.

But for the record, I think a lot of the sex in GOT has a lot to do with plot. These scenes often tell you about the differing social status of the two people and the morality of the characters. Often it's about power and the lack of it.