That was interesting reading, if nothing else. I've never understood the vampire craze, but the author's rendering of vampire popularity through history is well done. I'm not sure I agree with the thesis that young girls are longing to have sex with homosexual men/teenage boys, but then I haven't sat down with a group of fifteen year old girls and asked them what drives them to see the movies and read the books, nor have I read the books or watched the movies myself, so I'm probably speaking from a place of ignorance on that one. In any event, I hardly think the majority of these girls would admit to sharing the fantasy the author of the article applies to them. Hard to say without asking them, though. Perhaps that's why I'm not accepting the article's thesis wholesale. Did the author go out and talk to young girls? Does he have any statistics to back up his claims? Is there documented evidence of a rising interest in gay-straight sex among young girls outside of the vampire genre that can bolster or confirm the assertions in this article?

I also wonder about his assessment of modern Christianity and its current descent into what he terms 'sexual freakiness.' There's not a lot of that sort of thing going on in Canada as far as I know, although I realize the article is speaking to developments in the United States. However, given the fact that Canada is right next door to the U.S. and has often been affected by developments there in the past, one would expect that changes on this issue to the south would eventually filter up and across the border. I would be interested to see what kind of statistical analyses the author used, if any, or if he simply cherry-picked a few sensational quotes or events and then used them to make a huge generalization. Did he go to some of the smaller churches in smaller centres, or did he rely on the words of some well-known Christian eccentrics who often wind up in the headlines? The squeaky wheel gets the grease, as they say, but it doesn't mean that the wheel doing the squeaking is representative of all the other wheels. Unfortunately the quiet wheels, or people, are often the silent majority that gets ignored.

Just my two cents.