'I definitely welcome 'Twilight's' message'
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Conal O'Callaghan (21) is from Donegal. He works with Irish pro-chastity group Pure In Heart: "I think teenagers have got to have something to look up to so I think it's fantastic that a popular movie like Twilight could be helping make chastity a bit more mainstream.
"I made up my mind in my teens that I wanted to wait until marriage to have sex. I was brought up in the Catholic faith but even when I drifted away from different aspects of my religious faith, chastity always made sense from a common sense point of view.
"I've always felt sex is about something more than just pleasure, it's something to be respected and when you take sex out of the picture you see a lot clearer towards finding real love.
"I think generally there's more pressure on girls to have sex. There's so much emphasis put on how they look and many magazines imply their only value is in terms of being able to please a guy sexually.
"As a big brother to three sisters I definitely welcome Twilight's message or anything that makes it a bit easier for a teen to feel there's support and that they're normal for not wanting to rush into sex."
Irish Independent
