What do women see in Vampires?
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What do women see in creatures that can give them the power to suck the very life out their prey until they either die or become their loyal subjects, who never grow old, don't have to eat, can't get fat and can spend all day looking in a mirror without it hurting their self esteem?
Can't imagine.
Can't imagine.
^ Ouch. A vile accuracy, sir!
About the blood pumping and stuff (see what I did there?
). Some time in the 80s, I was reading a review of a vampire novel, and they gave a scene excerpt. I can't remember exactly how it went, but it was along the lines of:
A couple are watching a vampire seducing a woman, prior to the whole blood sucking thing. She's swooning, he's getting close and rending her nightdress (or somesuch), when something pops out of his trousers, and the couple observe it has its own little face, and is questing hungrily for her. Or something. For the life of me I can't think why I didn't read that novel. Indeed, I seem to have blocked out any details, including name and author,. from my memory.
And that's why women want vampires and they don't need the ol' blood pumpin'.
About the blood pumping and stuff (see what I did there?
). Some time in the 80s, I was reading a review of a vampire novel, and they gave a scene excerpt. I can't remember exactly how it went, but it was along the lines of:A couple are watching a vampire seducing a woman, prior to the whole blood sucking thing. She's swooning, he's getting close and rending her nightdress (or somesuch), when something pops out of his trousers, and the couple observe it has its own little face, and is questing hungrily for her. Or something. For the life of me I can't think why I didn't read that novel. Indeed, I seem to have blocked out any details, including name and author,. from my memory.
And that's why women want vampires and they don't need the ol' blood pumpin'.
Threads like these really annoy me. The moment anyone mentions vampires, there are 100 posts complaining about Twilight and "emo vampires". Like there never was a vampire story before. 
Oh for Dracula's sake, vampire fiction is NOT all about fucking Edward Cullen! 
As for what women see in vampires, isn't it obvious? Vampires are an epitome of the forbidden, of the dark, of sexual and violent desires and fantasies 'unacceptable' in a polite and normal society... which is why the most famous vampire book was written in Victorian age England, when sexual repression was at its height, especially for women. The moon, night, fangs, blood, the hypnotic power of Dracula... the vampire myth always had a strong sexual subtext that, over the course of the 20th century vampire fiction, moved to the main text. The secret of the vampire appeal, just like any other 'bad boy' or 'femme fatale' appeal, is that they are in fact an embodiment of the readers/viewers' own dark side and their own suppressed desires to break the society's rules, to be free to indulge in secret fantasies, even while they feel guilty and scared of losing their 'soul' over it.
Oh for Dracula's sake, vampire fiction is NOT all about fucking Edward Cullen! As for what women see in vampires, isn't it obvious? Vampires are an epitome of the forbidden, of the dark, of sexual and violent desires and fantasies 'unacceptable' in a polite and normal society... which is why the most famous vampire book was written in Victorian age England, when sexual repression was at its height, especially for women. The moon, night, fangs, blood, the hypnotic power of Dracula... the vampire myth always had a strong sexual subtext that, over the course of the 20th century vampire fiction, moved to the main text. The secret of the vampire appeal, just like any other 'bad boy' or 'femme fatale' appeal, is that they are in fact an embodiment of the readers/viewers' own dark side and their own suppressed desires to break the society's rules, to be free to indulge in secret fantasies, even while they feel guilty and scared of losing their 'soul' over it.
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Ummm... my post? Above yours? About a book from the 90s? And, as others have mentioned about blood pumping etc, fucking Edward Cullen might not be an option.Threads like these really annoy me. The moment anyone mentions vampires, there are 100 posts complaining about Twilight and "emo vampires". Like there never was a vampire story before.
And Dracula has been mentioned several times.
Hey, did you know... Nosferatu, the amazing silent film, was a flat out rip[off of Dracula? And, so they wouldn't have to pay royalties, they introduced the whole 'turning to dust in sunlight' thing to say, "hey, we did it different!"?
OK, I didn't say everyone was talking about Twilight... but as usual, there were still far too many posts that seemed to treat the whole vampire genre as the same as Twilight. Although maybe less so than in some of the previous threads.Ummm... my post? Above yours? About a book from the 90s? And, as others have mentioned about blood pumping etc, fucking Edward Cullen might not be an option.Threads like these really annoy me. The moment anyone mentions vampires, there are 100 posts complaining about Twilight and "emo vampires". Like there never was a vampire story before.
And Dracula has been mentioned several times.
As for the contemporary vampire fiction, I haven't seen Daybreakers, but I loved Let the Right One In was great, and I think that both True Blood and Being Human both offer very interesting, fun and different takes on vampires. Even though I've enjoyed the romantic sexy version of vampire ever since I saw Badham's Dracula with Frank Langella's seductive count on TV when I was 11, I think it's brilliant that vampire movement in Being Human is mafia-like and unromantic and that their leader was an average looking middle-aged copper who was all the more terrifying because he seemed like the guy next door rather than either a mysterious aristocrat with a gravelly voice or a monstrously ugly creature with fangs.
The vampire mythology underwent many changes and additions in fiction compared to the original folk tales. Some of the latter are weirder and more fun than the silver bullets, crucifix, garlic stuff. I always wonder why nobody in fiction ever used the old Serbian folk belief (as recorded in Vuk Karadzic's Dictionary) about women who get pregnant with vampires and give birth with children with no bones.
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I don't know, I haven't actually seen Twilight. Does it contain scenes of people being dismembered and chopped to pieces?
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Generic complaint about how modern TV/film vampires are not authentic, actual dangerous bloodsuckers, but rather just loser emo whiners, goes here.
Also generic mention of how there hasn't been a decent portrayal of vampires on screen since Kindred: The Embraced.
Have you seen True Blood?
Ya, you really need to give True Blood a try
I envy you as well, seeing it all for the first time. The current third season is the best so far!
Well click on the link from the OP. It's from the article. http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-vampire-formula-what-women-see-in-them/ The author wrote several other fun 'examples' of possible 'bad boy' monster fiction (werewolves, Dr Jekyll/Mr Hyde...even Godzilla!).
I'm still waiting for the Twilight-Blade crossover
I've been wanting a Blade Twilight crossover since the first movie. My girlfriend got me to watch Twilight and it made me suffer.
The cracked article I linked to is pure comedy gold. Nobody seems to have read it though.
Four episodes in, I declare True Blood hilarious. 
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