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Oct. 15th, 2009 09:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
radlilimI'm not sure if I completely agree with this, but it's an interesting thought:
"Edward, the romantic hero of the Twilight series, is a sweet, screwed-up high school kid, and at the beginning of his relationship with Bella, she is attracted to him because he is strange, beautiful, and seemingly repulsed by her. This exact scenario happened several times in my high school between straight girls and gay guys who either hadn't figured out they were gay or were still in the closet. Twilight's fantasy is that the gorgeous gay guy can be your boyfriend, and for the slightly awkward teenage girls who consume the books and movies, that's the clincher. Vampire fiction for young women is the equivalent of lesbian porn for men: Both create an atmosphere of sexual abandon that is nonthreatening. That's what everybody wants, isn't it? Sex that's dangerous and safe at the same time, risky but comfortable, gooey and violent but also traditional and loving. In the bedroom, we want to have one foot in the twenty-first century and another in the nineteenth.
Read more: http://www.esquire.com/features/thousand-words-on-culture/vampires-gay-men-1109#ixzz0U0xxNqOH"
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"Edward, the romantic hero of the Twilight series, is a sweet, screwed-up high school kid, and at the beginning of his relationship with Bella, she is attracted to him because he is strange, beautiful, and seemingly repulsed by her. This exact scenario happened several times in my high school between straight girls and gay guys who either hadn't figured out they were gay or were still in the closet. Twilight's fantasy is that the gorgeous gay guy can be your boyfriend, and for the slightly awkward teenage girls who consume the books and movies, that's the clincher. Vampire fiction for young women is the equivalent of lesbian porn for men: Both create an atmosphere of sexual abandon that is nonthreatening. That's what everybody wants, isn't it? Sex that's dangerous and safe at the same time, risky but comfortable, gooey and violent but also traditional and loving. In the bedroom, we want to have one foot in the twenty-first century and another in the nineteenth.
Read more: http://www.esquire.com/features/thousand-words-on-culture/vampires-gay-men-1109#ixzz0U0xxNqOH"
How do I not have a vampire icon?
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Date: 2009-10-16 12:52 am (UTC)'Cos he's deliciously dangerous, and often hot.
At least that's how I see it.
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Date: 2009-10-16 03:25 pm (UTC)I'll agree with that for vamps, but not so sure it applies to gay boys. They can be very hot, but I'm not sure I've ever met one I think is dangerous. But I can see your point.
Personally I find werewolves or werecreatures more exciting, it's probably more the connection to nature and the primal side.