Saving your virginity for the wedding night is a huge deal to many Christians.
But just now I think I may have reached my limit with the Wait Until Marriage discussions.
In the comments on a blog about YA fiction one woman said that the part she liked about Twilight was that Gary Glitter and Mary Sue Mcselfish waited until marriage to have sex*.
Pause and reflect.
“I’m glad that the young girl decided to forsake her immortal soul and marry the equally soulless and damned demonic creature so they could have sex within the sanctity of the marriage.”
Pause and reflect some more.
Now, when i read anything i dont impose my worldview on the story UNLESS the story purports to be about Christians. It seems silly to expect nonchristians to act like Christians, as silly as to expect Anne of Green Gables to speak flawless Mandarin at a convention on human trafficking. Totally different worlds. And since fiction is for exploring other worlds it’s very Accidental Touristy to expect those worlds to mirror my own.
So asking Disco Ball and The Golden Onion to hold off on the premarital sex is just…weird. But that’s Twilight for you. An attempt to reconcile the forbidden worlds of sex and danger with a cautiously conservative worldview.
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*I’m STILL waiting for someone–anyone–ro explain to me how bloodless vampires can get an erection.
Just Another Pretty Farce 
Many years ago, back when Anne Rice was the only one really going on about sexy vampires, I had someone tell me that HER (my friend, not Anne Rice) version of vampires could get vamboners immediately after feeding.
Now I wonder if it’s an involuntary side effect of the feeding process, similar to what doing a math problem in front of the class is to a seventh-grade boy.
Well, they aren’t exactly human, you know. So it’s probably a special set of lymph ducts that they develop or something.
“It seems silly to expect nonchristians to act like Christians”
Yeah.
[…] Coble has a great post about people being tickled that the vampire and gal at the center of the Twil…. And it got me thinking about how we seem to be in the middle of some big cultural shifts about what vampires are helping us work out. Early vampires, who were more like how our zombies are now, were actual reanimated corpses that emerged from the grave to suck the blood of the living and drain their lives from them, and it’s pretty widely accepted that those vampires are about our anxieties about death and about the problem of telling when someone is really dead. […]
Well, the author is Mormon and has said in interviews that books are supposed to reflect the eroticness of abstinence, or something like that. So it doesn’t seem at all surprising that other crazy Christians would read weird things into the story.
Well Twilight IS Mormon Abstinence Porn, but I’m not interesting in exploring Stephanie Meyer’s fetishes as much as writing the word Vamboners over and over.
Cjheart, there is so much Mormon in those books that Im honestly surprised it wasnt published by one of the LDS publishing houses.
I’m also surprised that the Misandry of the books isnt more troubling to the patriarchal Mormon church. But of all the things that surprise me about it, it DOESNT surprise me that so many people think of it as a celebration of abstinence.
But I’m back to being surprised by how many of those people DON’T REALISE AT ALL that the same stories which glorify flirtation and abstinence ALSO equate marital intercourse and pregnancy with damnation and death. Hangups, anyone?
Nm & fancycwabs, thank you both. I’ve been trying to get a firm (ha!) answer on this one for months. Both of those are solid. (ha! Again). And Vamboner is a word that should be said more often. Because it is funny.
Well, she does go on and on about how rock hard his entire body is…maybe he doesn’t need petty human things like blood flow.
And cold like marble… how enjoyable is that to snuggle up to?
The more I think about this series of books (and their movies), the more I marvel at the ridiculousness… and that I have enjoyed reading them. I guess it’s cotton candy for my brain. Total fluff. Some flavor. Little substance.
Like I said the other day, there Is often no rhyme or reason why a particular book strikes a chord with a reader. That’s the beauty of it.
My relationship to Twilight is strange, for sure. I have SO many of my close friends who really love and enjoy them that I feel like a heel (truly) for hating on them.
But I will say that my friends who enjoy them don’t embarrass me. They like them because of the fluff, escapism, romance–that sort of thing.
I’ve never heard any of y’all make ridiculous inferences about life and love from the books. That I’d definitely find embarrassing. To me it’s one thing to like them as a Kissing Book and another to try to parse them for some sort of spiritual or lifestyle relevance.
Like backing up chastity or drawing analogies to Christ’s love for the church from Edward’s love for Bella. (“Christ watches us while we sleep!”)
That’s where I think the real logic for any love of the stories disappears under the weight of illogic.
Pardon the brevity and the typos. This was sent from my iPhone.
Vamboner. Vamboner. Vamboner. Oh, that’s a word that will make me giggle for hours.
Thanks a lot! the last line made me snort coffee out of my nose.
I thank the Risen Christ that except for a movie trailer and book reviews, I’ve never seen or read Twilight. I already waste too much time to add that to my conscience.
Ah, but that means you have missed the sublime experience of watching the movies with Rifftrax. I think we laugh almost nonstop with those. (and that is also where my knowledge of the series comes in.).
Now I want to go back and watch the ones that I have the RiffTrax on my ‘puter for. Bwahahahaheeheeheeheeheeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“Lllllaaaaaadeeeeeez……”
“Line?”
“Line?”
“Line?!?”
“HEEEEE’S…Climbing in your windooow…watchin’ all your people sleep…”