There has been a lot of talk about the brutal, often gratuitous depictions of sexual violence on “Game of Thrones,” particularly in the wake of Sansa’s traumatic rape two episodes ago. As our own Sonia Saraiya wrote at the time, “the problem, as ever, with ‘Game Of Thrones’ rape is not that it exists but that it fails to adequately justify why it exists.”
Source: salon.com