There hasn’t been that much sex shown and the sex and violence shown is part of the point....this is based on medieval Europe before the Enlightenment and before any notions of the value of each individual human life. Life was cheap and often nasty and far from any notions of fairness or chivalry, horrible things often happened to innocent people.
It’s the very opposite of “Ivanhoe” or any other such romantic fantasies about what the world used to be like. Evil triumphs plenty of times. It’s about how well you play the “game” to obtain and hold onto power - not how good you are.
You might want to review history and when/where human life has been valued. We are so civilized that we kill 3,000 pre-born babies a day.
‘It’s the very opposite of “Ivanhoe”...’
I get your point, but it is ironic that Ivanhoe actually is one of the major inspirations for a lot of stuff in the books. All that stuff about the tournament of Harrenhal, the kidnapping of Lyanna, and the plots of most of the “Dunk & Egg” stories are straight ripped from Ivanhoe.