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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Michael Hogan

‘Everybody screamed when they saw it!’ The sudden rise in penises on TV

Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) in Saltburn.
A full-frontal furore … Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) in Saltburn. Photograph: TCD/Prod.DB/Alamy

It’s not just winter that’s coming. This week’s episode of House of the Dragon featured not one but two penises: one mid-fellatio, the other post-coital. If original fantasy epic Game of Thrones became known for “sexposition” – advancing the plot against a backdrop of bare bodies – its prequel seems to be dealing in “dicksposition”.

Just past the midway mark of episode three, as a tipsy King Aegon II Targaryen (Tom Glynn-Carney) arrived at a King’s Landing brothel with his jeering entourage, he strolled past a sizeable erection in the process of receiving a blowjob. The bratty monarch didn’t seem to notice. Viewers certainly did.

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