Comments | silk_noir: The Dead

silk_noir

The Dead

Nov 16, 2011 22:47

I am so very tired of vampires being TEH SEX.

And now apparently zombies have entered the "Supernaturals we wanna date" list.

What, do Americans not spend enough time around dead bodies? Dead bodies are not sexy, people. You want an encounter with the undead? Go clean out your fridge. Set some mousetraps. Take what you find and play with it for ( Read more... )

sex, grief, sex in fiction, question, death

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tedeisenstein November 17 2011, 05:14:54 UTC

The old thrills don't thrill any more, so they start in on new thrills. I'm not sure there's much more to it than that.

jamiam November 17 2011, 05:44:14 UTC

Huh.

silk_noir November 17 2011, 05:49:50 UTC

Yeah, by the time I was able to finish this post, I was a little incoherent. Sorry, and all that.

mckitterick November 17 2011, 06:00:29 UTC

Excellent question, there: Why do we have such attraction for the undead in fiction? All undead-romance stories to the contrary, I think it has more to do with fears and the subconscious than true eroticization of the dead.

Even so, I read a book (make that "started reading a book") last year about how zombie-ism was a sexually transmitted disease. Yeah, um.

silk_noir November 17 2011, 06:07:11 UTC

Gross, gross, gross. Can we please be edgy in a different way?

trimguy November 17 2011, 06:13:42 UTC

Well, so is death. I mean everyone is guaranteed to be dead by no more than 110 years after their first sexual encounter.
And if everyone stops having sex, after 100 years or so, the number of human deaths will drop drastically...

Sorry about the snark, but see my other comment to understand why i was in such a mood.

trimguy November 17 2011, 06:15:17 UTC

And in a Barnes & Noble yesterday, I saw an entire shelf-row labelled "Teen Paranormal Romance" or some such. Ah, the Twilightification of America's youth.

Save us all.

catlin November 17 2011, 06:39:15 UTC

Er... I don't want my erotic fiction to involve rotting body parts... Those fall off at Bad moments!

snailstichr November 17 2011, 16:08:08 UTC

Oh great! Now I'll have that old leper joke in my head all day!! In case you missed it in 4th grade: "What did the leper say to the prostitute? Keep the tip."
Lepers, Vampires, Zombies - they're all gross. But Michael J Fox as a teenage werewolf ... sigh, he was cute.
I always thought of vampires as ticks.

trimguy November 17 2011, 19:16:19 UTC

And what happened to the prostitute with leprosy?

Her business fell off!

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