[Call me Gytha]

I get what you're all saying and as I said it was a few years ago I read the books. Personally though I don't think a lot of the graphic sex details are necessary for character insight, at least I don't recall feeling any more enlightened by the characters involved for reading the details of their trysts. Certainly I don't think the books would have lost anything by these scenes being alluded to rather than described and there is always the dialogue for character insight. Having said that though, I don't have a problem with such scenes being incorporated I just find myself skipping over them as I don't feel they add any substance. On another level I guess the books would have less balance if the violence was portrayed in great detail but the sex was glossed over.