I am not adverse to sexual themes in a book. I don't mind sex scenes and erotic tones, but I am finding the weird, perverse and explicit sexual tones of some fantasy novels just too much!

I have read Game of Thrones and found that challenging at times because of the incest and just language like "she needs a good raping" which is just extreme misogynistic crap, even though I understand its a tool to explain a character.

I have read one Sarah Douglas book and found that too extreme in its weird sexual stuff, and now I have abandoned a Raymond Feist book "Faerie Tale" because a 7 year old boy becomes eroticised and ejaculates all over a nurse in the hospital and smears defecation on her breasts. SERIOUSLY! It is unnecessary and gross.

So, yeah. Why all the overtly perverse themes in fantasy novels. Is it just an attempt to disturb the reader and make them unnerved and therefore 'believe' in this other fantasy world?

What do you think? And can anyone recommend a fantasy novel that isn't like this??? (I love isobel carmody and have read heaps of hers).