--- title: "How to Get Away With Murder" Creator on Connor's Sex Life description: “I don’t want people marginalizing the character based on the fact that Connor is having sex with men." canonical: https://time.com/3857863/how-to-get-away-with-murder-creator-on-why-connors-sex-life-shouldnt-matter/ author: Eliana Dockterman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-13T21:35:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T07:10:55.066Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: "How to Get Away With Murder" Creator on Why Connor's Sex Life Shouldn't Matter og:description: “I don’t want people marginalizing the character based on the fact that Connor is having sex with men." og:url: https://time.com/3857863/how-to-get-away-with-murder-creator-on-why-connors-sex-life-shouldnt-matter/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4dd1885a79bf46d9/69878117cd1bba99176f5694/138174_2081_pre.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: JACK FALAHEE og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: "How to Get Away With Murder" Creator on Why Connor's Sex Life Shouldn't Matter twitter:description: “I don’t want people marginalizing the character based on the fact that Connor is having sex with men." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4dd1885a79bf46d9/69878117cd1bba99176f5694/138174_2081_pre.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _How to Get Away With Murder_ Creator on Why Connor's Sex Life Shouldn't Matter  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent May 13, 2015 9:35 PM UTC  Jack Falahee as Connor Walsh on How to Get Away With Murder Jack Falahee as Connor Walsh on How to Get Away With MurderMitchell Haaseth—ABC  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent May 13, 2015 9:35 PM UTC In an [interview](http://time.com/how-tv-sex-got-real/) with TIME about the changing landscape of sex on television, _How to Get Away With Murder_ showrunner Pete Nowalk said he worries about how much attention is paid to the character Connor’s sex life. Connor, a sometimes-monogamous-sometimes-not gay character, uses apps similar to Grindr on the show. One hookup says after an encounter with Connor, “He did this thing to my ass that made my eyes water”—a sentence likely never uttered on American network TV before. “I guess I have just been surprised that people have taken notice of it as something new,” says Nowalk. “I don’t want people marginalizing the character based on the fact that Connor is having sex with men. Viola Davis’ character, Annalise, is just as sexual as Connor, but she doesn’t get as much attention in the media. I just want people to pay attention to the character as much as they do to his sex life.” Read what writers from other shows like _Girls_ and _The Americans_ think of their character’s sex lives [here](http://time.com/how-tv-sex-got-real/). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3857863/how-to-get-away-with-murder-creator-on-why-connors-sex-life-shouldnt-matter/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3857863/how-to-get-away-with-murder-creator-on-why-connors-sex-life-shouldnt-matter/"},"headline":"How to Get Away With Murder Creator on Why Connor's Sex Life Shouldn't Matter","datePublished":"2015-05-13T21:35:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T07:10:55.066Z","description":"“I don’t want people marginalizing the character based on the fact that Connor is having sex with men.\"","url":"https://time.com/3857863/how-to-get-away-with-murder-creator-on-why-connors-sex-life-shouldnt-matter/","keywords":["Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4dd1885a79bf46d9/69878117cd1bba99176f5694/138174_2081_pre.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliana Dockterman","jobTitle":"Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4dd1885a79bf46d9/69878117cd1bba99176f5694/138174_2081_pre.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"JACK FALAHEE","caption":"JACK FALAHEE","creditText":"Mitchell Haaseth—ABC","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3857863/how-to-get-away-with-murder-creator-on-why-connors-sex-life-shouldnt-matter/","name":"How to Get Away With Murder Creator on Why Connor's Sex Life Shouldn't Matter"}}]}] ```