Do you think "Twilight" is selling sex or endorsing chastity?
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2009/11/23 04:10:01
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Lady Jules ♥♥ in Lestat I t... 2009/11/23 05:48:48Selling sex -- and that's why it's doing so well.
+5They have Twilight birth control pills, Twilight sex toys and Twilight baby bibs....what do you think?
If I was a parent, I would not let my child get so deeply involved and obsessed with this fictitional movie/book series. Interesting and a good read but some people are taking this obsession to the absolute extreme and that pathetic!
Vampires are sex, whether you make them sparkly or vegetarian they will still be sexually appealing to certain people.
The moment Stephanie made the reader aware that ‘Twilight’ involved vampires is the moment the reader became enticed/excited (if you enjoyed the book that is), whether it was subconsciously or consciously.
Vampires are romanticized in every book/movie that portrays them. That is the appeal. It’s the whole blood, sex and violence that draws people in, ‘Twilight’ no matter how timid is exactly the same.
When I read the books I admit I wanted Edward and Bella to have sex from the very moment they became a couple. And the prospect of this and Bella becoming a Vampire is what propelled me to continue reading.
However I wasn’t disappointed by the underlying themes of commitment and chastity. I thought it was nice that Edward wanted to wait after marriage and I couldn’t help but agree with him when he said “Because she’d rather you became one of the eternal damned than get married.”
I was pleased by all the themes overall because it made a change to other vampire novels I’ve read and enjoyed which were overtly sexual.
Stephanie took a story about a gir...
Vampires are sex, whether you make them sparkly or vegetarian they will still be sexually appealing to certain people.
The moment Stephanie made the reader aware that ‘Twilight’ involved vampires is the moment the reader became enticed/excited (if you enjoyed the book that is), whether it was subconsciously or consciously.
Vampires are romanticized in every book/movie that portrays them. That is the appeal. It’s the whole blood, sex and violence that draws people in, ‘Twilight’ no matter how timid is exactly the same.
When I read the books I admit I wanted Edward and Bella to have sex from the very moment they became a couple. And the prospect of this and Bella becoming a Vampire is what propelled me to continue reading.
However I wasn’t disappointed by the underlying themes of commitment and chastity. I thought it was nice that Edward wanted to wait after marriage and I couldn’t help but agree with him when he said “Because she’d rather you became one of the eternal damned than get married.”
I was pleased by all the themes overall because it made a change to other vampire novels I’ve read and enjoyed which were overtly sexual.
Stephanie took a story about a girl falling for a vampire and made it into something I think she would enjoy not really consciously thinking about the sex/marriage aspect of it. I personally think she just did what she felt would be right for her.
Some will argue its selling sex and others will say its no where near as sexual as they wished it was.
Again when she spent the day at his house they didn't go off alone to do the dirty deed, they had clean fun and talked to each other.
I liked that.
And personally I think that is more people talked extensively rather than giving into their lust before getting married, that the devorce rate would be lower.
I think Myer is tring to show Vampireism as a metaphore to sex. To Edward giving into lust would equal the same as giving in to eating bella. Instead just sleeping with/eating her and destroying their relationship/ her life, he waited until he knew her/ loved her/ respected her/ got used to her scent/ married her before risking her life/ their relationship with sex.
In the movie you see them talk, but dont hear what they are talking about. This occours twice. Once after Edward kisses her for the first time and After he takes her to visit his family, while they are in the trees.
They were married when they had the child, I dont see anything wrong with that. So what they didn't think about it. A lot of kids are concived that way.
And so what if it is young love, naieve and thoughtless. Its a book we indulge ourselves in. Not real life.
That is probably why young people like it. Irrational love has always been seen as romantic. Romeo and Juliet. (Not very rational to pretend to be dead so you can run off with your lover) Tristen and Isoled. (Not very rational to continue persueing a relationship with a servant once you have married the nobel)
Is irrational love so terrible? Is it not the dream we all carry deep down to find someone we love wildly and irrationaly, and loves us back that way?
Sure, in real life irrational love is often one-sided, unhealthy, painful and often gets abused, but can we not indulge ourselves in wondering, in imagining what a relationship would be like if such love were not just given, but returned?
But I'm sure a lot of other vampire fans would prefer that.
In another book he does turn her into a vampire.