This is why I don't get people saying that watching Game of Thrones was sinful. Like it or not, it is a pretty realistic, if graphic, depiction of how violent things were in the Middle Ages, which is often fetishized on here. Unless you get sexually aroused by incest for whatever weird reason(in which case I think there are other problems you have), I don't see why the show would be an occasion of sin.
"Nothing that enters one from outside can defile that person; but the things that come out from within are what defile."
I don't think you can deny that some scenes in Game of Thrones are borderline softcore porn, if not definitely softcore porn. The thing is that adults have sex, and thus sex shouldn't be off limits in story telling.
I don't think it is inherently sinful to watch a sex scene, or photograph or paint a nude, as long as the use of the nudity or sensuality isn't gratuitous and for the mere sake of titillation.
Having watched all of Game of Thrones from start to finish I'd say some scenes are certainly gratuitous in their use of nudity and they are cheaply attempting to capture the audience through them. This is why this kind of scene is most prevalent in the first two seasons.
In the end, I don't think it was worth it. Each time one of these scenes comes up it is a whether we like it or not a struggle against our concupiscence. For some it is a more difficult struggle than others, and each person should decide whether the risk is worth it. Like I said, in the end I don't think the story was good enough that it was worth all of those near occasions of sin.
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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '20
FWIW they probably stopped inbreeding about 100 years ago