If the plot lends itself to that, if one of my viewpoint characters is in a situation, then I'm not going to shy away from it, but you can't just insert things because everyone wants to see them.'Īfter all, he concluded, storytelling 'is not a democracy', he said. 'I don't pretend to understand this,' he added, in comments reported by The Guardian.īut he promised: 'I'm not going to do it just for the sake of doing it. 'I've had letters from fans who want me to present particularly an explicit male sex scene – most of the letters come from women.' He also said readers should not rule out man-on-man action in the series’ remaining novels. 'A television show doesn't have those limitations,' he told the audience at the Edinburgh International Literary Festival.
As none of those characters are gay, there have been no explicit gay sex scenes in the Winterfell novels to date.īut in HBO's television adaptation, the approach could be different, he suggested.
Responding to a question at a book festival, the author explained that his fantasy novels are narrated through 'viewpoint' characters. Game of Thrones creator George RR Martin has revealed why there are no gay sex scenes in his bestselling novel series.