I have a few issues with the current pop culture sensation that is Twilight, however the thing that perhaps bothers me the most is the scientific inaccuracy of everything hypothetical about the fictional vampires within the series. In the series vampires are immortal beings that roam the earth with their soul purpose in life being drinking blood, human or animal. Every single vampire in the stories is explained to be so fast and so strong and so smart, that no human would ever be able to escape, over power or fight a vampire and survive. The explanation seems simple; vampires need to be stronger than humans, so they can eat to survive. For example, if we look at the fox and the rabbit, while the fox is bigger, stronger and faster, the rabbit can reproduce at a much greater rate, and can hide down rabbit warrens, where foxes are unable to get too due to their size. See, balance. And even if the foxes eat too many of the rabbits, suddenly there is a shortage of food for the rabbits, and the foxes will starve as a result, which will boost the rabbit population and the cycle continues. The graph below shows population against time, where the red line represents prey, and the blue shows predators.


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With Breaking Dawn Part 1 only three weeks away, we think it's only right for us to do a close-reading of the scene we've all been waiting for. You know, when Bella and Edward get all sexed up on the honeymoon! Holy broken beds! Now, maybe you're a hard-core Twi-hard, or maybe it's the only reason you're seeing the vamp fest. Either way, we know you've been wondering—how the hell does Edward Cullen get it up? Vampires have blood, which is what's used to fill those erections generally required for sex, in their system only after they've hunted and sucked their victims dry. Everybody knows that.
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Throughout the series, he falls in love with human Bella, eventually gives into his sort-of human urges to have sex, impregnantes her, and eventually lives out his life with Bella, who is now a vampire, and their terrifying and terribly named daughter Reneesmee. Well, Buzzfeed writer Jenna Guillaume has pointed us all towards the explanation. Author Stephenie Meyer was actually asked so much about this plothole that she explained how a bloodless vamp got a boner.
Even without temple covenants marriage is a noble and worthy institution. I guess I can understand that because his door needs to be locked from the outside and it would be too soon in our relationship to give me a key. Mormon theology is pretty clear: But Mormon theology is also rich with opportunities for second chances. When I was a teen, my first boyfriend was a convert and people would comment on that instead of how nice he was to me.