George R.R. Martin knows viewers are not really happy with the sexual assaults on HBO’s Game of Thrones , specifically with what happened to Sansa Stark played by Sophie Turner in the recent twist (Sansa’s assault was not in his books, something the show did differently). However, Martin said to not depict rape would not be true to the story he’s trying to tell. In an interview with
EW , Martin said his books “reflect a patriarchal society based on the Middle Ages.
