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Some male writers have an obvious dependency on whorehouses, strip clubs, and bars, judging by how often their stories take us to any or all of these locations in the narrative's world. Part of it is shorthand: gritty, sexual, and straddling the line between legal and not. Some of it is expository, and some of it is to pad the narrative with tits and ass in case a presumed male reader is getting bored and needs to read about a bunch of T&A at the fantasy concept version of Hooters.Personally I think Hollywood is run by satanic pedophiles and that's why all the movies are bad. There also is zero competition for Hollywood so they can do whatever they want.
Also female leads in movies are based on who the producers want to rape and film in a sex scene based on their own fetishes. That's why there is unnecessary nudity in absolutely everything.
GRRM did this a LOT in Game of Thrones / A Song of Ice and Fire. It finally jumped the shark for me in Season 4 when Jon Snow and Sam Tarly are taken hostage in Craster’s Keep.
There is this scene stuck in my head where the guy in charge of Sam and Jon, having murdered Craster is drinking wine out of Craster’s empty skull while his men rape Craster's incest daughters. The scene focuses on the traitor knight with the wine but there’s one of his guys in the background just relentlessly shagging one of Craster’s daughters in a scenario the kids call “non-con”. So the directors added a woman get raped in the bg just to add a gritty sexual element to the mise en scene. (And yes there is a similar scene in the books.)
This is far from the only time we end up touring Westeros through its whorehouses, but that one was particularly odious for me.