The "Twilight" Saga - An Inadvertent Celebration of Pedophilia?

look at media they celebrate kids as sex symbols miley cyrus, soldierboy, the porn industry that sells it, catholic priests, rkelly this has been happening since thousands of years ago and if you believe adam and eve story to multiply he had to laying with his daughters there are just people who lust that

Why not focus on the "virtual child porn" that exists in today's society?

Instead of focusing on the 17 year old Bella, who if you were to read the books you would know that Edward has no sexual attraction to Bella, it is more a soul mate attraction. (Definition of a pedaphile: an adult who is sexually attracted to YOUNG children.) The saga of "Twilight" doesn't focus on the ever present "sexual attraction" between Bella and Edward, until they are married and both "legally" over age.

Sex really has nothing to do with this story. This story is more about the valued search for a soul mate, in which most people are searching for. It is about companionship, survival, life. Although not realistic, that is why we as human beings are given imagination.

If you see the movies and read the first two books and you see SEX, then perhaps it is your own dirty mind that should be evaluated! Bella is not a child

Look into "virtual child Pornography" and how that is starting to take over.

Child defined:
A person between birth and puberty.

A person who has not attained maturity or the age of legal majority.

An unborn infant; a fetus.

An infant; a baby.

In all fairness,...this isn't a "celebration" of Pedophilia, any more than all those tales about Zeus scoring tail by shape-shifting and outright "stunning" chicks with his godlike charisma are "celebrations" of serial rape and infidelity. These tales deal with unpalatable acts to be sure,....but as fantasy,...or at best sci-fi or myth,...they explore these themes to some extent and make use of them as literary/cinematic devices,....which is not the same thing as championing a cause. I don't think the audience is meant to to establish a pedophiliac sportsman like competitive rapport; "O come ON glitter boy,....you can do better than that,.....I'm sure you can score some "fresh 13" ,....go git er done! Go team, GO! Twilight is very stupid,....but I don't think its depraved to the core.

well, duh. so was beauty and the beast and a lot of other fairy tales.

I get what your saying, and it makes sense in a way. But its a bit out there, because ultimately it is a fantasy. Its like finding the very apparent flaws in disney story tale movies, or scifi films.

i think there are other aspects of twilight that need some kind of attention. like, how incredibly weak and passive Bella is. A man leaves her, and she crumbles, becomes masochistic, completely shuts down. And she lives her human life as this weak insecure being. And then after she turns into a vampire, she becomes strong and confident. Why? b/c she is suddenly beautiful and strong and fast. Not because of personal growth.

She is a terrible character to base ones life on, which is what many girls are doing. Girls are thinking its "romantic" to die for love, to be broken if a lover leaves. Self-harm is already too socially acceptable, and now its brought to an even higher level, b/c Twilight teaches that its romantic to be in impulsive and harm oneself, as long as its in the name of love.

I understand that books should not be written to be perfect models for how people should live and behave. But what is scary about this "Twilight" phenomenon, is that the fans are taking it seriously. They look at Bella and Edward as an example of what love should be. Other books have intentionally twisted characters and themes. But its apparent to the readers. Twilight readers take the book as reality. Its a fantasy. And not one I would want. I don't think anyone woman should.

Love should be found when one is strong and independent on their own. No man should "complete" a woman, nor should a woman "complete" a man. Confidence doesn't come with immediate physical strength and beauty. And giving the idea to girls that if they wait until the day they look perfect and are instantly confident and happy and the world is just right, is futile.

cool story, bro

LAWLZ!! awsome

Are you attracted to Belle? Are you over 18?

I will never watch Twilight.

It's a glorified chick flick... To make the teen-angst schmaltz even more swoony for teenage girls, when sunlight hits a Twilight vampire, instead of crumbling to dust, he turns into a walking engagement ring. Not to sound misogynistic or immature, but no wonder chicks are eating this up.

If the pedophile looked like Pattinson then he could molest me any day, LOL!

Though it is hilarious to call Edward a pedo to Twilight fans, saying the story has any deep under-lining meaning gives it far too much credit. In reality, it's essentially a Mary-Sue story, that could have been written by the author of My Immortal if she had a thesaurus and spell check, and (to quote Robert Pattinson) "was like it was a book that wasn't supposed to be published."

the author forgets one thing that if vampire dude is more than a hundred years old that in his day 17 was a ripe old age for marrying so he would not have been considered a border-line pedo back then. Even today, how does one year off make him so? what it does make him is creepy and apparently unable to have a relationship with someone more mature who can buy their own alcohol.

This concept of teenage-hood did not exist in human society until relatively recently in our history. People got married and had kids young and no one thought anything about it.

Today though there is a big difference between a 17 year old of a century ago and a 17 year old of today. in the former case, they were seen by society and themselves as young adults whereas today they are not despite all faux-maturity derived from our shallow materialistic internet culture. This is why the vampire guy IS creepy not just for his culinary habits, but to find and seek love in someone so very young not just physically but emotionally and mentally as well. For example more than a century ago the difference between say a 17 year old and 21 year old was not so great but today? Worlds apart almost. The question is - is our vampiric romeo stuck in the past and doesn't understand that society's morals have changed in regards to youth? Of course if he is, you'd think he'd quickly pick up on that fact that 17 year olds today are vastly different than those of his youth unless of course he has acquired the modern perverted desire for that age group.

Now despite all that marrying young in the past stuff, what was never condoned and should never be condoned is true pedophilia - the lusting after actual children, prepubscent. Even when they were marrying folks off when they were children in every sense of the meaning for the sake of family alliances, consumation of such marriages were not allowed until they had reached puberty ie child-bearing/creating age. Granted creepy by our standards but folks grew up quick and died young back in the day.

Personally I don't think people should just bandy the word pedophile around for these kinds of situations creepy as they are just for the sake of humor. It lessens the true sickness of the behavior behind the word. Lust for a teen in today's time is creepy and perverted and if acted upon should be punished severely but lust for actual children is abhorrently wrong and if acted upon should be punished with a bullet to the back of the head IMHO. Don't casually lump creepy vampire dude with the latter group who are wrong beyond wrong in any time period just because he is out-of-step with modern morality and has an aversion to more mature females.

BTW i haven't seen or read any of the Twilight series and have no intention in doing so. In general Vampire fans annoy me with their pretentiousness and pathetic attempts to be goth.

Bad acting.

finally, someone agrees with me. You can watch true blood all you want,but let's stop letting 12 year olds think it's ok to be with a much older man as long as he looks young.

Didn't think of that. I suppose its creepy...

Anyway, Ive seen the movie. I'm a romantic so I liked it. That being said, I still don't know what the obsession is. It wasn't even the most beautiful love story ever [dont get me started on Pride and Prejudice!]. hehe.

I can not escape this . Even Current has been sucked .. no pun intended. I'm in high school which is filled with Twilight minions. The story has a weak plot and no substance. I don't know why people waist their money. I think i'm the only teenage female on the planet who is not enthralled by Meyers' incandescent vampires and burly werewolves.

I wish people would just shutup about Twilight. Why is everyone getting sucked into this?!

There is a problem with the argument. It assumes Edward wants to exploit Belle simply for his own pleasures, yet does not provide evidence for this assumption. The self-sacrifices that Edward makes for the sake of Belle imply the opposite.
It also fails to prove exactly how Belle was exploited. The difference in age itself does not necessarily mean Belle is being exploited.

Hehehe, this will shut up all my female (and the rare few male) friends that I have that like "Twilight."