By Suzanne Carré

Up to now I’ve told you vampires exchange sex during the bite, for their benefit mainly with a little in it for the donor so the recipient is not just giving blood. The question is, how do the vampires accomplish this? Think about it this way—you’re in bed expecting a visit of the long-fanged kind, you’ve even gone to the trouble of putting a little “x” on your neck to mark the right spot, but you’ve fallen asleep waiting, so you’re really not involved—are you? The trick is vampires aren’t completely into physical sex, they recognize many types of sex, and some of the times the old-fashioned way of doing it isn’t the best option.

So now you need a quick lesson on what vampires consider sex.

It’s all in your head

We are told, the biggest sex organ you have is your brain and the reason is obvious—if you don’t think about it, your body doesn’t have a clue of what to do. And if your brain isn’t interested, then the body couldn’t care less, why should it? So, if you don’t have sex on your brain then clearly you’re not in the mood and you might never get there. You just have to think about it…literally.

Vampires know this about mood setting and the sexual impulse all too well. They seek physical sex with a partner but the ultimate for vampires is to express the sensations in a psychic plane. Unlike the human limitation to bridge one brain to another, the “wireless” messages vampires send to each other are loud and clear and don’t need interpretation (especially when it comes to sex). The clear advantage of psychic sex is connecting with several partners at the same time and likewise feeling all their sexual sensations they experience simultaneously. It’s even better than being hermaphrodite when you don’t even need the physical apparatus to know what the other gender feels when they approach the heights of their sexual bliss.

There are several forms of psychic sex: some are general, some are more personal, and others require some contact (even if this means holding hands), with the link being dependent on the circumstances. In my novel Vampire Sexual Secrets, Marie is subject to all three types of psychic sex as the vampires entice her into their world. Marie finds each time the vampires include her in their psychic orgies, she is more exhausted than if she engaged physically in what she imagined. Among vampires, the psychic sex is reciprocated, each participant equally capable of providing their thoughts and feelings to improve the whole sexual experience. But this is not the case with casual human partners.

When a vampire chooses a human for a bite, they have a choice between getting it on physically or getting off with a pure mind-blowing experience. As I said in the last segment of this series, we are compatible with vampires, so they hardly notice the difference, and this is fine so long as a female vampire picks on a guy (because he’s cute) or a male vampire meets an enticing woman at a party. But a hunting female can’t be choosy about the sex of her intended donors, after all, one neck is as good as the next.  Female vampires share blood and don’t suffer any psychological hangups over wearing a sex toy and playing “the male” but on a hunt it is so simple to induce an erotic dream. The same applies to a male vampire who finds the flavored blood of a bodybuilder too hot to resist.

Bring me a dream…

Vampires feed at night, requiring the cover of darkness, so it’s logical to bite humans when they sleep. The sexual side of the bite is vital for the vampire, and important to the donor to compensate for any pain the invasive fangs might cause, so the erotic dream is both necessary and convenient. With very sharp fangs, gliding easily into the vein, the vampire isn’t interested in destroying a blood source if there is the opportunity to return and feed again. Given vampires are such delicate feeders the point of their nightly visit is to extract blood from their sleeping providers without causing panic, and enforcing the sleep state with a pleasurable dream ensures the sleeper won’t remember the experience. In so doing, the vampire fails to disturb the nocturnal habits of human beings. The only time a donor might wake is when rocketed to consciousness after participating in the wildest sex they ever imagined, only to lie there wondering—was it really just a dream?

Next time I will continue the series on the Bite with the bad bite and still later, the conversion.

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