Much as I like the novels — and I devoured all of them happily — I’m appalled to find that a sizable number of the 25 million copies now in print are going into the hands of 10-year-olds. Why would parents whose children are not yet obsessed with sex encourage their kids to read books that are one long, bodice-ripping romance?

So says Sonja Bolle for the Los Angeles Times. She argues that the series, especially the fourth book, is a bit too sexy for youngsters. This brings to mind the recent question of whether Breaking Dawn will be able to be made into a movie appropriate for a younger audience or not:

[SPOILERS FOLLOW if you haven't read Breaking Dawn!]

In the fourth book, by contrast, the lovers have tons of sex. First, they marry, of course, and produce a fetching baby. But the fourth book answers the burning question about what vampires do with all their free time, since they don’t sleep. It turns out that married vampires have a lot of sex. They are immensely strong, so they end up destroying a lot of perfectly lovely beds, and much other furniture to boot. In fact, their lovemaking is so ferocious that one young married vampire couple teases the newlyweds that they can’t be truly crazy for each other, because they haven’t destroyed enough houses yet.

Why ‘Twilight’ isn’t for everybody

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