[silverstreak]

OK, so according to Twilight and the Sookie Stackhouse mysteries, vampires can have sex. According to Twilight, vampires can also reproduce. These concepts have been rattling around in my head for a while and I have a couple of questions:

I haven't read all the Twilight and Sookie books, so I"m not sure if it's been covered, but how can male vampires have sex? How do they get erections if they're the Undead? Do they get an erection from all the blood they drink? What do they ejaculate and how do they produce sperm?

Also, what happens if a human female partner of a vampire gets a period? Is it the equivalent of dangling a packet of chocolate biscuits in my face for five days, or does nothing compare to blood fresh from the neck?

Can any biologists, romance readers, or vampires please enlighten me?

Edited for terrible grammar

This post has been edited by silverstreak: 27/02/2013, 11:52 PM

[BadCat]

I think the answer lies in the fact that you are talking about wishy-washy pretend vampires.

Proper vampires don't have sex and they don't have relatinships. They just rip throats open to slake their bloodlust. No sparkling and no moping required.

[silverstreak]

This is the thing, Manatee, I do like this modern concept of Vampire / Human relationships, but I don't know how well the "mechanics" of it work. And the sparkling, ye gods, what's with that?

Oh and can Eric Northman please post in this thread too?

[ljl211]

Back in the Buffy the Vampire slayer days, Angel and Buffy fell in love but if they had sex, didn't he lose his "soul" again and turn all blood lusty?

I don't know, its something that I've thought about too, all the differences. For eg, in the Sookie books, the vamps sleep during the day, but Twilight they don't?








*disclaimer* I know its all fiction!

[kpingitquiet]

Being a former game-runner of several Vampire type games, I can tell ya how the more imaginative players have worked this.

Erections: So, vampires need blood as they lost all their own in the vampire-making process. Some vampire players contend that the acquired blood is what animates the otherwise-dead vampire's body. As a vampire might force this blood to animate their legs to walk, they might also force the blood to form an erection. Twilighty types have a different take. The author provides that the natural body fluids and synaptic reactions are replaced by venom and that this venom makes vampires work in a similar fashion to humans, just never warm and with mega-hard/strong body tissues. Erection? No probs. Just a bit chilly.

Periods: Gamer take on this is that a well-fed vampire could resist the blood scent but that a hungry vampire would likely go into a frenzy state. I don't think Twilight covers this, though.

Pregnancy: Gamer take: Wellll, this is hotly contended. Some insist that vampires exist by magical means so therefore...magic happens. Others say "Sorry, dead people have no living sperm". Twilight take: Venom simulates human bodily function so well that a venom-based version of sperm still exists. Hence half human/half vamp kids. But the ability of most vampires to resist eating their lover in a most unpleasant fashion, and the tendency of these offspring to drain the life out of their human hosts/mothers, means it's not a commonly pondered issue.

Imagination is a beautiful...and sometimes ridiculous thing.

This post has been edited by kpingitquiet: 27/02/2013, 09:48 AM

[kelbelblue]

in the books Lauren K Hamillton writes, the male vampires can't have an erection until they drink blood, the drinking of the blood seems to be quite sexual too.
So I guess they either go to the bedroom after a little snack, or the blood drinking just adds to the excitement.
In hamillton's books, she generally haas them drink blood during the act, so that 'Anita' is always fully satisfied first. Also, in her books, the males seem to have gigantic penis', so this enables the females to swallow them completely before they are hard...
Sorry if this is TMI, I read these as a teenager and writing it out like this is hilaious

ETA, she doesn't really deal with the spem issue until later in the series, when we find out human can be impregnated by vamps (but not the other way around) but generally the baby half breed eats the mother...
In the Night Huntress Series, the vamp has to have been change within the last week or less for it to work, after that all the sperm die off...

This post has been edited by kelbelblue: 27/02/2013, 09:58 AM

[BadCat]

Well if you want to get all down and dirty with a vamp I'm pretty sure you could use THIS. Don't look if you are at work or have kids around.


I can't help you with the semen though.

This post has been edited by O TheHugeManatee: 27/02/2013, 09:51 AM

[Sunnycat]

I don't know how a vampire would get an erection. Doesn't an erection usually occur when increased blood flow goes to the penis? (I could be wrong!)

So in that case if they were going to get erections after having a blood drink, wouldn't they get erections every time they had blood? How embarrassing.

I also thought vampires shot blanks. Do dead men have sperm? Surely even if it's alive for a while after they die, it would soon be gone, unless they a like cockroaches who can have sex and reproduce for a period of time after they die.

Ewwwwwww!

[silverstreak]

Now I'm even more confused, IjI211, I didn't know vampires had souls? Or hang on, wasn't Brad Pitt's character in Interview with a Vampire the only one to have a soul?

Now that I think of it, because the Twilight universe has vampires that never sleep, they can theoretically attack you at any time (unless they're "vegetarians"!) That's a bit harsh. At least in the Sookie universe people don't expect to be attacked by vampires during the day.

[Sunnycat]

Also if male vampires can impregnant women can female vampires get pregnant?