I missed this comment when reading the thread through but ITA and have posted something similar. Like jeez, GRRM, this is not how sexual development happens.

I am probably in the minority here, but I actually find the HBO version of that scene less troubling than the book version. The book asks us to accept that a very cloistered, highly controlled 13-year-old child can go from zero sexual or romantic experience (or possibly sexual abuse that was thoroughly unpleasant and…