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Twilight question
Okay so I just started reading Breaking Dawn (just made it through the beginning of Bella/Edward's HM) and I'm wondering again, as I wondered watching Buffy years ago, how is it possible for vampires to get it up? This question has really been annoying me and I have no where else to ask it. If vampires don't breathe, and I assume don't have blood coursing through their veins, how is this possible?
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Re: Twilight question
Lucy Elizabeth 10.27.12
(Mamie, I'm assuming you were talking about me?)
It's actually a point of contention in a lot of scholarly literature...Meyer explains it a bit later in Breaking Dawn -- near the end of the honeymoon/back in Forks. It boils down to their bodies being frozen at the point they transform. I.E., a horny seventeen year old will always be a horny seventeen year old.
Ironically, vamp sex wasn't ever really a concern until recently because in the literary cannon, the vampire bite was actually a trope for sex -- i.e., the "bite" was the penetration. That's why Twilight has such a strong abstinence message -- Edward won't "bite" Bella until they're married. It's a double whammy that he won't turn her into a vampire AND he won't have sex with her.
However, vampires actually DO bleed. Well, in some vamp stories. The way you become a vampire (according to, say, Bram Stoker or Anne Rice) is to have a vampire drink your blood and then YOU drink theirs. If you don't drink from them, you just die. If you DO drink from them, wham-bam-immortality.
Obviously it's a lot more complicated than this...I've got, literally, twelve books on my coffee table at home all about vampires, human women, and sex. It's a very contentious subject, but as I learn more, I'd be happy to share more.
Stephenie Meyer explains it in one of her Q&A sessions.
The vampires in her stories don't have "blood", but another substance that runs through their veins and serves the same purpuse as blood.
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I think I recall her saying that it was the same thing as their venom. It substituted all bodily fluids: saliva and blood. She never says what the composition of it is though.
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I would think there would be other things a creature that doesn't breathe and has no heart beat couldn't do.... walk and talk, for example. And, since they don't breathe, can they swim underwater forever? If there's no breath, can a vampire blow up a balloon? Blow out a candle? If the heart doesn't beat, what makes the blood/venom/saliva/whatever travel through the veins? Why don't they just dry up? How do they digest the blood they drink?
Answer: Magic. Suspension of disbelief. Fantasy. Metaphor (the bite as sex thing has always seemed really cool to me - now that vampires are having vaginal intercourse, I've got think it would be a let down after the bite, which, at the very least is a unique and unusal experience. ISex is too much of a human action. Vampires are mythical, they should be above such things. Having a vampire have sex diminishes the power of the bite. See, now I've talked myself out of reading the next Twilight books. Boo).
This is the same reason I hate it when Brodie gets into that huge discussion with TS in Mallrats about how Superman has sex. These things were not meant to stand up to scrutiny.
"It's impossible, Lois could never have Superman's baby. Do you think her fallopian tubes could handle the sperm? I guarantee you he blows a load like a shotgun right through her back. What about her womb? Do you think it's strong enough to carry her child?"