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Psychosexual therapist Mike Lousada rationalizes the hypocrisy of shipping Jon/Daenerys and finding Cersei/Jaime wrong.
“There’s nothing wrong with people wanting that. The fantasy of taboo is always going to be exciting—to have that thrill enacted, and we know that it’s fantasy. To enact that in real life, to say that’s a justification for incest, no, that’s not OK.”
“We put ourselves in the shoes of the characters—we empathize with them, and that’s why the show resonates with so many people,” Lousada continues. “We can all feel ourselves in many of the characters in the plot. What if we put ourselves in the role of Jon—wouldn’t you be attracted to Dany, and vice versa?”
The difference between Cersei/Jaime and Dany/Jon is that Dany and Jon do not know they are related (duh? Captain obvious...), although the concept called genetic sexual attraction is common in real life, and there are numerous cases of estranged relatives ending up in a relationship.
“If we take the idea of sameness being attractive, we like what we know, what is familiar,” says Lousada. “There’s a narcissistic mirror in the other; there’s that biological sameness that’s going to create similar characteristics. They’re both driven. They’re leaders.... They have similar characteristics.”
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