Twilight: New Moon - Selling Sex?

“The Twilight Saga: New Moon” features long, steamy, smoldering gazes by handsome, shirtless young men who are vampires or werewolves. Despite those lingering, lustful looks the film includes only four kisses and not a single sex scene.

Women and girls, who made up 80 percent of the opening weekend audience, said that is one reason “The Twilight Saga” appeals to them.

“I actually like that, the fact that they don’t have bedroom scenes or anything,” Gabrielle Rivera, 15, said.

Lisa Gradie, who has read all of the “Twilight” books, said she loves it “because the movie is so much about tension, and so much about Bella and Edward and they can’t get together, so the kind of downplayed sexual tension definitely adds to the movie because you’re just waiting for something to happen.”

“The Twilight Saga” stands in stark contrast to other vampire movies or series. From Bela Lugosi to HBO’s “True Blood,” vampires are most often associated with the libido.

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