Signs
Of Demon Possession, Or Just
Wanting
To Be Possessed? Twilight
Effect Leads
Teens To Biting One Another As
Vampires
The allure of the blockbuster
"Twilight" books and movies
appears to have spawned a
troubling
trend: Teen couples are biting
one
another to show affection,
sometimes
biting so hard they draw
blood.
"Biting is challenging because
one of the things we know
about
sexuality and biting and
vampires is
that it's passion, it's
all-encompassing, it's wanting
to
consume someone else," New
York
City sexologist Logan Levkoff
told
"Good Morning America."
"And biting is sort of an
extension of the hickey. It's
that
same thing about marking
someone else
and showing passion." Michael
Kaplor, 16, said he has been
biting
his girlfriend on and off for
about a
year. "For me, biting is the
way
to show affection toward the
other
person and to just get a crazy
adrenaline rush and not so
much to
mark territory or to show I
belong to
something, but just to show
the other
person I care and there's a
deeper
sense of affection," he said.