The XX Factor : vampires

Girls Love Vampires Because We Want To Have Sex With Gay Guys?

Samantha Henig — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:36:00 GMT

The real root of the vampire trend, according to Stephen Marche at Esquire , is that straight women want to have sex with gay guys . It’s an interesting thesis, but I’m not buying it ... (Read more in DoubleX .)...(read more)

The Blood-Soaked Kiss of a Good Swedish Lady Vamp

Samantha Henig — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:52:00 GMT

Nina, I’m glad you brought up Grady Hendrix’s complaint that vampires aren’t doing enough blood sucking these days, because I have a bone to pick, too ... (Read more in Double X .)...(read more)

Sensitive Vampires Are Worse for Girls Than the Bloodsucking Kind

Nina Shen Rastogi — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:40:00 GMT

Or so argues Grady Hendrix in Slate today . Hendrix hates emo-boy vampires , with their all-swoon, no-suck brand of human relations. Latoya Peterson argued here in Double X that Twilight and True Blood are bad for women because they're all about pigeonholing...(read more)

When Buffy Met Edward

Nina Shen Rastogi — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:39:00 GMT

Hey ladies—are you weirded out by the strange sexual power dynamics in Twilight ? So is Buffy the vampire slayer, and she's got something to say about it. Like to hear it? Here it goes... (To read the rest of this post , visit our new website DoubleX.com...(read more)

True Love Waste

Hanna Rosin — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:15:00 GMT

Melinda , it’s a fine idea to tell teenagers to wait. Except that it really doesn’t work. This is not liberal wishful thinking. Researchers have pried into the sex lives of abstinence-pledgers and discovered that at best, taking the pledge delays sex...(read more)

Teenage Boys Defanged

Bonnie Goldstein — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:47:00 GMT

I have to say, I never saw the appeal of vampire cinema. Classic Dracula lit, steeped in metaphor, or even Anne Rice variations on a theme , OK, but I missed the cultural wave of Buffy and never saw the draw of bloodsucking dudes on-screen, even cute...(read more)

True Love Waits (for a Vampire)

Hanna Rosin — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:23:00 GMT

I know none of you are 13-year-old girls, but did any of you see Twilight this weekend? It's a movie about vampire love based on the Harry Potter-for-girls blockbuster series by Stephenie Meyer, a Mormon mom. I loved it, but what struck me most is how...(read more)