"Twilight" series: please explain vampires and skin...

[Gaith]

So, according to the Edward Cullen Wikipedia article, he has "ice cold" skin. Makes sense, because he's dead, right? So, logically, all vampires have room temperature skin at the most.

Now in Breaking Dawn, (spoilers!) Edward and Bella get it on. Wouldn't getting it on with someone with cool (never mind ice-cold) skin be pretty gross? Does Meyer somehow explain it away by having him take a really hot bath beforehand?

Just curious, so thanks in advance for any replies!

 

[CommodoreKong]

Maybe he was sunning himself on a rock like cold blooded animals.

 

[od0_ital]

If ya think that Bella and Edward are the first two to have human/vampire sex, you should get out more.

I'd say more important than body temperature is this - if vampires don't have a pulse, or a beatin' heart, how would a male vampire get an erection? Its all about blood flow, ya know.

 

[Skywalker]

I wondered the same about Buffy and Angel, y'know, ten years ago.

I'd say more important than body temperature is this - if vampires don't have a pulse, or a beatin' heart, how would a male vampire get an erection? Its all about blood flow, ya know.

They have themselves a snack pre-coitus so they can get some extra blood.

 

[NileQT87]

We have a thread over at SlayAlive that is entitled "Vampire Sex: Magical Member or Fangy Pill Popper?"

http://slayalive.com/index.cgi?board=ats&action=display&thread=6470&page=1

Not kidding.

It gets the kinky fanfiction community going, anyway. Vampires and aliens are quite popular kinks.

 

[cardinal biggles]

Wow, this is actually an interesting question. I saw the title and thought it was going to be something about that stupid thing where Twilight vampires shine like diamonds when they step into the sun.

 

[SiorX]

I always wondered that in the Buffyverse, actually. At least, in the early years of the Buffyverse before the vampire lore went all screwy anyway.

Edward Cullen. Like fucking a popsicle.

 

[Gaith]

I wondered the same about Buffy and Angel, y'know, ten years ago.

I'd say more important than body temperature is this - if vampires don't have a pulse, or a beatin' heart, how would a male vampire get an erection? Its all about blood flow, ya know.

They have themselves a snack pre-coitus so they can get some extra blood.

Interesting theory. But I take it that neither Buffy nor the Twilight series explicitly states this?

... And were the Buffy vampires explicitly stated to have cold skin also, then?

 

[Admiral2]

It was written by a middle-aged woman channeling her inner squealing teenager. You want a sensible explanation?

 

[Gaith]

To be honest, no, I don't really care, I just plan on writing a joke or two on the subject in a short play for a friend of mine, and wanted to be sure that the question hadn't been answered in some form. If I gave a hoot about the series, I'd read or watch one of its entries, and then I wouldn't be here asking this.

 

[matthunter]

Check out Doctor Who fanfic as well for some ideas on how sex with a guy that has a lower than human body temperature might play out.

 

[Gaith]

^^ See, when I said I didn't really care, I assumed that to imply that I wasn't about to rummage through any fanfic.

 

[Ryan]

... And were the Buffy vampires explicitly stated to have cold skin also, then?

At least as far back as season four where The Initiative was using thermal vision to spot vampires.

 

[Kirk's_Tights]

Look at Robert Pattinson.

No, it would not be gross to fuck that, ice cold or not.

 

[Argus Skyhawk]

If ya think that Bella and Edward are the first two to have human/vampire sex, you should get out more.

I'd say more important than body temperature is this - if vampires don't have a pulse, or a beatin' heart, how would a male vampire get an erection? Its all about blood flow, ya know.

If you are going to wonder that, you might as well wonder why vampires are able to be conscious if no blood is flowing to their brains. Technically, nothing in the body should work if there is no blood flow. We just have to attribute the workings of a vampire body to magic.

Having said that, I hope no one minds if I go off on a tangent about how the Buffyverse always contradicted itself on whether vampires could breathe. In the season one finale, Angel couldn't give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to Buffy because vampires have no breath, and in Dopplegangland Willow commented that vampires don't need to breathe. However, in the season two finale, Spike chokes Drew until she passes out, and in a latter episode someone tortures Spike by holding his head under water. Besides, how could vampires talk if they can't breathe? (Again, magic, obviously)

 

[propita]

Look at Robert Pattinson.

No, it would not be gross to fuck that, ice cold or not.

I don't get the frenzy over him.

But then I don't like his bedroom eyes. A big turnoff. As is the fact that the top of his head looks twice as wide as his jaw. To me.

But, to each his/her own.

 

[SiorX]

If ya think that Bella and Edward are the first two to have human/vampire sex, you should get out more.

I'd say more important than body temperature is this - if vampires don't have a pulse, or a beatin' heart, how would a male vampire get an erection? Its all about blood flow, ya know.

If you are going to wonder that, you might as well wonder why vampires are able to be conscious if no blood is flowing to their brains. Technically, nothing in the body should work if there is no blood flow. We just have to attribute the workings of a vampire body to magic.

Having said that, I hope no one minds if I go off on a tangent about how the Buffyverse always contradicted itself on whether vampires could breathe. In the season one finale, Angel couldn't give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to Buffy because vampires have no breath, and in Dopplegangland Willow commented that vampires don't need to breathe. However, in the season two finale, Spike chokes Drew until she passes out, and in a latter episode someone tortures Spike by holding his head under water. Besides, how could vampires talk if they can't breathe? (Again, magic, obviously)

I'd never caught that thing with Drusilla, but you're right.

With regard to Spike, I always just wrote it of as him being a drama queen and acting like he's being tortured - because he is a whiney and self-involved little muppet - despite the fact that it should be about as traumatic as having your hand repeatedly plunged into a bucket. (As was pointed out on TWOP iirc.)

 

[mswood]

Sorry he looks like he is on Meth. I mean look at the bags under those eyes.

As to twilight they do at least try and explain some of it.

For example when they have sex, they the ass wipe (I mean Edward) takes her off the coast of South America during a hot time of the year specifically to help knowing that they would be intimate. And the first time they do it is in very warm water of the ocean (also said to make it easier on her). And the author does address even just casual lingering contact between them (to a degree).

As for the vampires in twilight they do breathe (they don't have to) so I do assume they have a pulse (their heart does pump) and thus blood flow to help get an erection.

 

[Gaith]

Aha, an answer to the OP! Thanks.

 

[IndyJones]

Sorry he looks like he is on Meth. I mean look at the bags under those eyes.

Agreed. He looked great in Harry Potter, but real-life-doesn't-shower Pattinson? Naw.