14 DAY TRIAL // The “Twilight” phenomenon has inspired fans to buy cosmetics products to make them look like their favorite characters and even to drink fake blood. Now, a new trend is picking up – and it’s truly worrying health specialists.
According to BodyOdd on MSNBC, more and more teens are acting as if they were real vampires, biting each other and then licking or even drinking the blood from the wound.
Granted, it’s not just “Twilight” that’s to blame for such a sickening “trend,” since Hollywood has always been fascinated with vampires, but it seems that the latest saga is the easier to blame because of its impressive fanbase.
Apparently, says the report, one can find online countless such communities of “vampires,” where teens tell of their latest “victims” and how they spend their “vampire” existence.
“‘These are kids who think they are real vampires,’ said Dr. Orly Avitzur, the medical advisor to Consumers Union, the agency that publishes Consumer Reports magazine,” BodyOdd writes.
Avitzur did a lot of research before submitting the report – and was shocked to find out just how many teens would bite another because they thought they were vampires, or were simply fascinated by the act.
Websites we shall not name admittedly include groups like “I drink blood” and “I want to be a vampire,” where members detail vampire-like acts in their everyday life.
“Having that thick, warm copper-tasting blood in my mouth is the best thing I can think of! Sometimes my boyfriend lets me feed off him. I let him feed off me as well,” one user using the moniker GothicGirl10 writes on such a forum.
This is a very worrying trend because it’s also unhealthy, not to mention gross, the same report notes.
“Such talk alarms medical experts, who warn about the dangers of blood-borne diseases such as hepatitis and HIV, as well as the risk of nasty infections. Typically, 10 to 15 percent of human bites wounds become infected,” BodyOdd writes.
Then, there’s the very idea of hurting someone to make them feel like they belong to someone else, which could twist teen’s concept about what a real relationship should be like, it is further noted.