Northwestern University’s Medill Reports weighs in on the current (and past) popularity of vampires:

This sexual predator is not cruising chat rooms or walking into a sting operation with “To Catch a Predator’s” Chris Hansen.  For centuries belt buckles and bra clasps have unfastened at their  whim.  These long-toothed, porcelain hemo-fiends bit their own chunk out of the fleshy literary almanac.

Katherine Ramsland, a forensic psychologist at DeSales University, a Catholic school in Philadelphia, prefers her vampires with  a bit more bite.

She is the author of more than 35 books, an Anne Rice biographer and “vampirologist,” who has studied vampire culture for more than 20 years. She likens the worldwide phenomenon known as “Twilight,” to prolonged heavy petting, less the classic appeal of sex, drugs and rock and roll.

Read the full article at http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/news.aspx?id=152517

Editor’s Note: The reporters gave me way too much credit in this article. I’m flattered and embarrassed.