Yet Twilight and its sequels are, in toto, also a mildly pornographic way of suggesting that young girls take their time to make proper choices; and take their time, more racily, to choose a good, patient, bed-breaking lover. (…)
One feels that she is, very slyly, using archaic metaphors throughout her work: Young girls, she seems to be saying, beneath all of the blood and fangs and fur …
It just feels better to wait.
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