To be absolutely fair, “Game of Thrones” pretty much immediately made a name for itself as one of the most explicit shows on television — to the point where critic Myles McNutt zeroed in on one scene in the show’s ninth-ever episode, the Season 1 standout “You Win or You Die.” During the scene, Petyr “Littlefinger” Baelish talks at length about his childhood and the fact that his unrequited love Catelyn Stark (Michelle Fairley) never took him seriously. The thing is, Littlefinger owns a brothel, so for the entire duration of his monologue, two sex workers are practicing on each other.

As McNutt wrote, Littlefinger’s reveal about his yearning for Catelyn does “flesh” out his character (pun very much intended), but he couldn’t really take the whole thing seriously: “But the choice to stage it while Ros and another prostitute loudly simulate sex just becomes too much to handle. I get that his story connects with their actions, and I like the idea that Littlefinger is using some of his own strategies for tricking/deceiving men like Ned in his advice, but any real symbolism is lost amidst the moaning.” Thusly, the term “sexposition” was born, and it was all thanks to “Game of Thrones.” From that point on, it definitely seemed like the show just leaned into its newfound reputation, frequently staging scenes where people are either mid-act or completely nude while they have a conversation of some sort … but it all started with Petyr and two of his loyal employees.