Safe Sex with Defanged Vampires: New Vampire Heroes in Twilight and the Southern Vampire Mysteries by Chiho Nakagawa

“…Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight saga and Charlaine Harris’s Southern Vampire Mysteries both portray a romance between a human female and a male vampire, borrowing many conventions from romance novels and Gothic fiction. Both series introduce a new breed of vampires that refrain from drinking human blood, betraying the traditional image of vampires as sexually transgressive creatures. …”
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