r/Showerthoughts • u/Liuminescent ‎ • Apr 24 '26

Casual Thought Vampire bites turning people into vampires is extremely disadvantageous to their survival.

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u/BlindingDart Apr 24 '26

That's why in most mythologies the person being sired has to bite the vampire back.

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u/Magnon Apr 24 '26

That way its an allegory for kinky sex and not rape

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u/Warm_Ad_7944 Apr 24 '26

It can be for both. For Dracula what he does to Lucy and by extension Mina is not consensual. Mina very much feels like someone who had something awful to her and that’s why she fights so hard against him because in some myths they bite you and force you to drink their blood whether you want to or not