The 22-year-old goes on to explain that viewers can expect graphic scenes that are hard to watch, and may be “triggering” for some.
“Please only watch if you feel you can handle it. Do what’s best for you. I will still love you and feel your support.”
Like “Euphoria,” “Game of Thrones” also had a mature rating.
The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) says its popularity wasn’t just normalizing sexual violence and perversion among a group of people, it was permeating our culture.
“HBO’s Game of Thrones is brimming with pornographic sex scenes, awash in misogynistic dialogue, and bloated with depictions of sexual violence and torture so savage as to be unrivaled in television history. In GOT, HBO has given a stage to an amalgam of pornography, rape, prostitution, child abuse, sexual violence, sexual paraphilias, and wholesale carnage that succeeds in bringing the ambiance of torture pornography to the American living room,” NCOSE stated on a website it created to specifically warn people about all the disturbing content in GOT.
It’s a perplexing concept.
On one hand, we have things like the #MeToo movement taking over and leading a passionate charge to be the voice for victims, and advocate for change to laws and policies around sexual violence. And on the other hand, our society is single-handedly funding TV programming like “Euphoria” and GOT, which, by simply watching any of these shows, is supporting the same sexual violence and obscenity our culture says it wants to put an end to.
Ultimately parents, it’s just another reminder to be vigilant when it comes to what we allow our children to watch.
“While HBO is a premium cable network, parents who are HBO subscribers may be blindsided by HBO’s new attempt to market such explicit content directly to minors. And the parental blindside is greatly exacerbated by ubiquitous streaming apps that deliver such explicit content directly to a teen’s phone or computer screen,” Winters said.
