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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I allowd my 15 year old.  I didn't have a problem with it.  if I allow it, we can watch it and talk about it.  If I forbid it, he will watch anyway and then lose the opportunity to discuss.

Are you afraid the sadism and brutal sex will be appealing, or are you naive enough to think fifteen year old will think GOT depicts real life?[/quote]

If my kids are anything like me, the sadism may well be appealing. That does not in any way factor into my decisionmaking regarding allowing them to watch the show, and I am in the camp of those who would have no problem with a 17 year old watching basically anything.

If I have not raised my teens well enough that they understand entertainment versus life, fiction versus reality, and consent versus coercion and outright rape, then we have bigger problems than what TV shows they want to watch.[/quote]

Well, just realize that most kids do not want to know that their parent finds "sadism appealing".[/quote]

I completely agree of course and I doubt my children know anything about my sex life, other than that the oldest knows I have one because she was snooping in my room as a young teen and found certain (thankfully very vanilla) items I suspect most women own.

My point was basically that maybe the sadism is appealing, maybe it is not, but either way that is not a problem IMO or a reason to ban an older teen from watching the show.

Most teens will not be shocked by such content, and if they are or find it uncomfortable they can decide for themselves not to watch a show if they start watching it and discover that they do not like it. At that age I am not going to police and restrict TV choices.[/quote]

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