Twilight? Sexual Content? What?

All anyone has to say is “Stephanie Meyer.” Her name makes the buzz in young adult’s conversations everywhere and… surprise, now in our parents and teachers conversations.

Just about the First Twilight Movie:
83% of people saw it more than once, 42% of people were over 25 years old, 67% say they are attracted to the movie because of the love story and 87% of people saw the trailers and clips online. I could list these kinds of statistics all day but I won’t. You get my point.

I read this morning on Yahoo News that was written by Hillel Italie about the criticisms of Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight Saga books. On and on I hear about this sexual content. I would like to know where this is.

Neither in the books or the movies are there sexual content. Bella and Edward don’t even kiss until half way into the movie, if not farther. The main characters don’t have sex until after getting married (in the fourth book) and Edward says he doesn’t want to in case of hurting Bella because he was so much stronger than she was. He didn’t want to lose control with her.

The American Library Association placed the Twilight Series as #5 for the annual report of challenged books. This is ridiculous, to be honest. I can list books that sit on library shelves, all over the United States, that have far more sexually explicit scenes.

What I have noticed, and I have asked around, are that the ones who have the most problems with these books are the people who haven’t even read them. READ THE BOOKS! Don’t judge them until you’ve read them.

Yes, you can feel the sexual tension between Bella and Edward or even Bella and Jacob. Here’s a news flash! Those tensions are what your children feel with others of the opposite sex. But, there is no sexual content written in these books.

I am a Christian who goes to church regularly and even helps with the youth every Sunday. I don’t believe that vampires or werewolves are real, who does? But they create a fantasy story that, believe it or not, makes for a great book. I am working on two of my own books about werewolves that I believe are really good stories. I’m not one who thinks writing about something that will cause others to stumble is a good thing. That isn’t what books should do. But nowhere in Stephanie Meyer’s books do I see places that will cause our children to stumble.

Here’s the moral of my thoughts. People have nothing else to complain about and therefore are hindering their children and students from reading. Theses adults don’t see how wonderful it is that children are reading these days.