Twilight

So a few days ago a friend of mine lent me the book Twilight. I started reading it. Then my parents told me that they didn't really want me reading those books from the series after reading an article about them in the Plugged In magazine from Focus on the Family. I read it myself. Apparently, as they go on there's a lot of detail in the occult type category. (The books are primarily about vampires, you should know that if you're reading this). And later on things become sexually between the characters. Even though that is after they get married, it's still there. For girls that's porn, I'd say. Girl porn. Lovely, right? No, not so much.

Now, today I tried to return the book to my friend who lent it to me telling her those things. I didn't call it girl porn though. My friend is a Mormon, which doesn't actually make a huge difference to me, but she promised me they were good. She told me the Stephenie Meyer, who wrote the books is Mormon, and Mormons hold similar beliefs to Christians, I believe, and she told me that if they weren't good books she wouldn't read them herself.

But I trust my parents' opinion more than hers. And I know that what I read was true because she didn't deny it, she simply praised Stephenie for sending the message of saving sex for marriage. And my other Christian friend who was there in my English class who's reading the books was like "they just kiss, and kiss some more and go a little further..." Ahh! And then another friend of mine, also there, a Christian guy friend said "As long as you know it's wrong, than it's OK to read it".

What?! I'm trying keep my mind clean, could I get some support here? All three of those friends believe that so whatever happened to

"There's more to sex than mere skin on skin. Sex is as much spiritual mystery as physical fact. As written in Scripture, "The two become one." Since we want to become spiritually one with the Master, we must not pursue the kind of sex that avoids commitment and intimacy, leaving us more lonely than ever—the kind of sex that can never "become one." There is a sense in which sexual sins are different from all others. In sexual sin we violate the sacredness of our own bodies, these bodies that were made for God-given and God-modeled love, for "becoming one" with another. Or didn't you realize that your body is a sacred place, the place of the Holy Spirit? Don't you see that you can't live however you please, squandering what God paid such a high price for? The physical part of you is not some piece of property belonging to the spiritual part of you. God owns the whole works. So let people see God in and through your body." 1 Corinthians 6:16-20 (The Message)

and

"Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things." Philippians 4:8

So to tie things up, this is what happened. My first friend told me to just finish the book. She said that the book stands on its own and there's no need to read the other books for it to be a good story. The other books are the ones where things get worse. I agreed but left myself the right to stop reading at any point. And I definitely won't be reading the rest of the books. She promised it was good. We'll see.