It does seem to be a habit of these particular writers to add in such things for drama/edginess or, more mercenarily, ratings, and yeah, they'll probably never address it again, but my thought was, at least it was only mental, and at least it was pleasurable, as opposed to the straight-up physical torture she put him through before and after! It seemed to me much less bad. Aaaaand, of course, they never follow up on the consequences of regular physical torture, either, but that's just Show for you.