I read the Twilight series over a period of five days when I was fifteen years old. When the Twilight movie came out months after I finished Breaking Dawn, I was one of the first people in line to see it. To say I was a fan was a major understatement. I had every piece of memorabilia, and my stock stretched from things like posters and stickers to purses, bracelets, and board games. I had it all. Looking back on that time now, I feel a little foolish. It seems I had a huge misunderstanding of what the novels stood for, what they were missing, and what they were silently saying. For me, the Twilight novels were always just stories about a Vampire family living in a human world. I must have a low comprehension level when it comes to these types of books, because I apparently completely missed the point.
"Twilight throbs with sexual longing, and this tension is part of what makes the books so compelling." Sexual longing never crossed my mind when I read any of the books. Whether or not it was because I was a fifteen year old freshman with no sexual tension of my own, I read right over this. When I was reading, I remember always waiting for the wise Carlisle or the awkward Jasper or the comical Emmett to make an appearance. I reread the scenes where the vampires were just being vampires. I speed read most of the dialog where Bella was whining about Edward or to Edward about being a mere human and not being able to love him completely. I just remember Bella and Edward's honeymoon and then Bella waking up covered in feathers. I guess my brain did not register all the dozens of times Bella practically threw herself at Edward's feet just because she wanted to be completely his, to have sex with him. Now, however, three years older, I see what I missed back then. Twilight does have a huge sexual theme, and I am kind of uncomfortable for having read the series when I was just a kid.
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