If you have never watched Game of Thrones, you should know that it has a lot of sex. I mean, there are no TV’s in Westeros so what else are people supposed to do? Obviously, Game of Thrones, with all its sex and graphic violence, that it’s a show that shouldn’t be seen by children. But just because it isn’t suitable to be seen by children, the show needed children to be in the show.

When a child actor is in a show or movie that features situations they shouldn’t see, there are ways to make sure they aren’t being exposed to that kind of thing. For instance, a chaperone (usually a parent or guardian) is on hand to make sure of that and to make sure they are keeping up in their schoolwork. And when there’s a scene that consists of nudity or a sex scene, the child actors aren’t on set when that happens.

But sometimes that’s unavoidable and child actors have to be more adult than a normal child that age and have to be more mature about the things they learn. For Sophie Turner, who plays Sansa Stark on Game of Thrones, she got that as a 13-year old when she first started on the show and learned what oral sex was after reading about it in a script.

“I’d be doing a read-through and we’d be talking about very graphic stuff,” Turner—who had her mom on set as a chaperone until she turned 16—says of her experience in the show’s first season. “The first time I ever found out about oral sex was from reading the script. I was like … ‘Wow! People do that? That’s fascinating!” She adds, “I guess that was my sex education. Being on Game Of Thrones.”

Let’s be honest, this probably doesn’t even crack the top 100 of worst ways to learn about sex. It’s actually kind of funny to learn about it this way, through a script of a show based on a book by George R.R. Martin. Now that she’s 21, you can say that Turner has grown up on Game of Thrones.

[The Times/Vulture/Photo: PicHost]

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