Stephenie Meyer's Mormonism And The Erotics Of Abstinence '

“Stephenie Meyer’s Mormonism and the “erotics of abstinence”” by Wm Morris shows his mixed feelings about Stephenie’s novel, Twilight. Morris purpose in writing this article is to show the pro’s and con’s she had with her according to their religion. Morris develops his article by introducing, first, where he found the piece of literature he is analyzing, Profile of Stephenie Meyer in the Time magazine. He also inserts two pieces of commentary about the sexuality scenes in Twilight, as well as in The Host (Meyer’s other book) written by Lev Grossman. In the first piece of commentary, Grossman critiques the level of sexuality Twilight has, a scene in particular. He states “….[Edward] barely touches her, but there’s more sex in that one paragraph than in all the snogging
In the first paragraph he simply list other things “the obligatory list of stuff Meyer doesn’t do”, which is pretty much drink alcohol and watch R rated movies. The second paragraph he writes is in explaining he hasn’t “taken a quite a dim view of Meyer’s work”. He does this because Meyer has done something “that [he has] long thought would be a rewarding strand of Mormon literature”. The third paragraph, before another insert of commentary of Twilight from Stephenie, the tone shirt occurs. Although in the paragraph before he states he didn’t take a dim view on Twilight, here he “[thinks] something is missing”. He says he is not fully convinced that Edward and Bella are “the best agents with which to explore the agency” meaning the Mormon religion. After this paragraph, another piece of commentary is inserted, but this time from Meyer, herself. In this commentary, Meyer explains the “underlying metaphor of [her] vampires”, which is that “it doesn’t