If you haven't heard of the Twilight series, then you probably either are a guy or don't have a teenage daughter.
The novels by Stephanie Meyer (I had no idea Ms. Meyer is a Mormon mom) focus on the unconconsummated love affair between a teenage girl and a member of the undead.
My daughter has riffled her way through the first three and can't wait for the fourth.
The phenomenon came to the attention of the NYT Gail Collins, who drew some larger conclusions (linked above) in her Saturday column.
In preparing the column, Collins spoke to the writer of a book titled Full Frontal Feminism. Stephanie Valenti argues that young men have so much access to Internet porn that they really aren't that interested in relationships with women their own age.
"This sure sounds like trouble to me: A generation of guys who will settle for nothing less than a porn star meets a generation of women who expect their boyfriend to crawl through their bedroom window at night and just nuzzle gently until they fall asleep."
News flash: it's not just young guys who aren't interested in the hard slogging needed to make it through the challenging times in a relationship. (see Peter Cook below). Our access to the Internet has feuled the fantasy that we can short cut intimacy, or manage to avoid it altogether.
The availability of pornography and a more permissive culture have enabled a whole group of women to proclaim their liberation through casual sex and access to the stimulation men used to find in magazines they hid in their closets.
I remain agnostic on whether this is really liberation...I tend to think that, in this case, freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
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