"There is something very sexy about a vampire's otherworldness," says Medved. "They have an intensity and a desperate need to be close to other humans that is appealing. It's exciting because you just never know when a vampire is going to lose control and have to bite you. There is a chaste sensuality at work."
Vampires are extraordinarily beautiful, some more attractive than others, such as Heidi and Rosalie. Their beauty is described as angelic or even god-like. This is one of the several features meant to attract their prey—more specifically, to attract, fascinate, and (if necessary) seduce, unsuspecting humans.
Every woman wants to be intensely desired, to feel attractive. Edward fulfills the natural desire we all have to be desired. He's also loyal, passionate, kind, and considers Bella's feelings and wishes a lot more than he gets credit for.
Meyer actually gave an explanation to this, saying that vampires' bodies sparkle due to the crystalline properties of their cells, as vampire skin is very different to that of humans. The skin of vampires is often described in the books as being like marble due to its texture, color, and feel.
In the world of Twilight, vampire women are unable to get pregnant because their body can not change to hold a fetus. But men are apparently able to get human women pregnant.
Bella gets pregnant after one night of passionate sex with her husband Edward the vampire, sex that leads to the destruction of their idyllic honeymoon suite.
If vampires have no blood, how did Edward impregnate Bella in Twilight? The venom in body serves as a substitute for his sperm.
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.
vampiress (plural vampiresses) A female vampire.
Vampires are extensively associated with whiteness in the films. According to Dyer, white people are depicted as pure and god-like, and as transcending the body. He also notes that whiteness is fraught with paradoxes.
Except that Edward is not asexual or aromantic. In the context of the Twilight franchise, he's basically just waiting for the right seventeen year old girl to magically appear so he can groom her into his vampire bride. The language Meyer chooses is 100% grooming language.
Twilight takes grown women back to those feelings — of wanting someone so badly and being wanted by him, of feeling cared for and protected, and loved. According to Darlene, women who didn't have those experiences can't fully relate in the same way to Edward and Bella's story.
Who could have guessed, in an analysis of the hotness of a vampire and a werewolf? Thus we rely on the experts in the field (here defined as posters on the various message boards, blogs and the like). A casual survey reveals a majority finding that Edward is prettier but Jacob is brawnier.
6. Emmett Cullen. Twilight had to feature at least one buff, manly man of a vampire, and that would be Mr. Emmett Cullen.
Starting about the late 1950s through the Anne Rice novels of the 1970s and 1980s, Fry said, vampires in pop culture became something of authority-defying heroes and the sex became much more explicit.
The blue tones in Twilight can also be attributed to Catherine Hardwicke's filmmaking style, as she used those same tones in the 2003 movie Thirteen, while Chris Weitz, who directed Twilight's sequel movie, New Moon, has used warmer tones in his movies, such as American Pie and A Better Life.
In Balkans folklore, dhampirs (sometimes spelled dhampyres, dhamphirs, or dhampyrs) are creatures that are the result of a union between a vampire and a mortal human. This union was usually between male vampires and female mortal humans, with stories of female vampires mating with male mortal humans being rare.
Jure Grando Alilović or Giure Grando (1579–1656) was a villager from the region of Istria (in modern-day Croatia) who may have been the first real person described as a vampire in historical records. He was referred to as a strigoi, štrigon, or štrigun, a local word for something resembling a vampire and a warlock.
The first vampire started out as not a vampire at all, but as a human man named Ambrogio. He was an Italian-born adventurer who fate brought to Delphi, in Greece. You can read the full story here, but in a nutshell a series of blessings and curses transformed this young man into history's first vampire.
Vampires were first sexualized to strike fear into people of the taboo and sinfulness of sexual behavior, but later, this sexualization became a metaphor for repressed desires, until finally their sexualization caused them to be humanized.
Edward can't have sex with Bella because he might accidentally kill her. Take that in for a second. Also, when they do finally have sex, she's left bruised and hurt and the bed is LITERALLY BROKEN IN HALF.
Edward Cullen
Tanya was very interested in Edward upon their first encounter, mostly because he showed no interest in her advances despite the fact that he had no partner. Her relentlessly lighthearted pursuit of Edward was one of the reasons the Cullens did not settle in Alaska with the Denalis.
When she gives birth, Edward rips open Bella's stomach with his teeth to get the baby out.
“Immortal Children” (a.k.a. Baby Vampires)
These are small children who have been turned into full vampires, meaning they will stay 5 years old (or 4 or 8, you pick) for the rest of their lives.
Vampires in Meyer's world don't sleep, so Edward had too much time on his hands and used it to watch Bella sleep, as uncomfortable as that is to many readers and viewers. Midnight Sun didn't skip that part of Twilight and revealed that what Edward did while Bella slept was kill spiders.