Comments on: Twilight is bringing sexy back… http://cblpi.org/senseandsexualityblog/2009/12/twilight-is-bringing-sexy-back/ Sat, 27 Nov 2010 00:05:47 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: artschoolnerd http://cblpi.org/senseandsexualityblog/2009/12/twilight-is-bringing-sexy-back/comment-page-1/#comment-127 artschoolnerd Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:11:16 +0000 http://cblpi.org/senseandsexualityblog/?p=223#comment-127 I'm all for teen-targeted books and movies that aren't pushing sex on teens. Really, I am. Our culture is way to hung up on sex in general. BUT, even though it doesn't happen until the fourth novel, Twilight is all about sex. It's written like a harlequin romance, so the reader builds up anticipation, and there is no release, because there's no sex until the fourth book. Every part with physical contact has impact because it's written as a bodice ripper, the book is a tease. You keep reading the book because YOU WANT THEM TO HAVE SEX ALREADY. (Maybe Meyer should have thrown in a Bella masturbating scene? All she needed was 5 quick sentences not using the word chagrin, and she would have still pushed the abstinence movement WHILE letting girls know it's okay to have those feelings and desires and they can take care of them themselves, thus making the whole wait till marriage thing a bit easier. Just saying.) That said, I'm kinda hard pressed to believe that people love it because of how PURE it is. I mean, vampires themselves are metaphors for sex, and there isn't really any depth to their relationship. The main conflict in their relationship is Edwards struggle to not eat Bella (seduction/sex) and Bella's inexplicable desire towards Edward (blatant sex) There isn't even any depth to the characters. Bella is a bit of a Mary Sue, and Edward, well he's sparkly. And borderline abusive. So even when it's not about sex, it's still all about the sex. I’m all for teen-targeted books and movies that aren’t pushing sex on teens. Really, I am. Our culture is way to hung up on sex in general. BUT, even though it doesn’t happen until the fourth novel, Twilight is all about sex. It’s written like a harlequin romance, so the reader builds up anticipation, and there is no release, because there’s no sex until the fourth book. Every part with physical contact has impact because it’s written as a bodice ripper, the book is a tease. You keep reading the book because YOU WANT THEM TO HAVE SEX ALREADY.

(Maybe Meyer should have thrown in a Bella masturbating scene? All she needed was 5 quick sentences not using the word chagrin, and she would have still pushed the abstinence movement WHILE letting girls know it’s okay to have those feelings and desires and they can take care of them themselves, thus making the whole wait till marriage thing a bit easier. Just saying.)

That said, I’m kinda hard pressed to believe that people love it because of how PURE it is. I mean, vampires themselves are metaphors for sex, and there isn’t really any depth to their relationship. The main conflict in their relationship is Edwards struggle to not eat Bella (seduction/sex) and Bella’s inexplicable desire towards Edward (blatant sex) There isn’t even any depth to the characters. Bella is a bit of a Mary Sue, and Edward, well he’s sparkly. And borderline abusive. So even when it’s not about sex, it’s still all about the sex.

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