By Suzanne Carré

So, why do I write about vampires and sex? I don’t think we have enough of romances involving vampires, where the drama concentrates on the meaning of love and sex, not from our standing but from a vampire point of view. In literature it is often the practice of writers to ask all those questions most people are afraid to ask. Unfortunately there are rare opportunities to give conclusive answers, especially for the subject of love. We have only our own ideas, collectively derived from great writers on love but they always seem more ideal than practical. From within the human experience then logically there can’t be any way to solve our own problems. When these questions are asked in my novel, the answers returned are vampire in nature.

But what makes for this vampire wisdom? Their indifference to the physical consequences of sex, and their idealism in the precept of love, as a perfect feeling devoid of any physical affection, are two key issues I use to contrast our uncertainty over love, with the confidence of the vampires, concerning a feeling they alone have gained control of. When preparing for the entry into the vampire realm, they insist we learn to experience the full power of love, and free our sex from any guilt and shame.

Pure Emotional Love

My novel is essentially a love story between a human and an immortal with the consequence of their love leading to her conversion into the vampire world— mind, body and soul. The emotional change deals with her developing a vampire attitude to the essence of pure love. Her physical change requires a complete education in sex, in all the ways vampires regard, and need sex. Ultimately she transforms from a woman, unsure of her female potential, to conquering all her fears when she gains eternal love.

But such a prize doesn’t come easily, and the struggle to find her place in the vampire domain is intense. I don’t scrimp on the details, to me the delicious part is knowing all the intricacies of her vampire journey. So if you like the way I write here on the web, then you will enjoy the way I describe the vampire sex, and the evolution of thought developed in my heroine. There are so many beautiful words in the English language to describe love and the feelings associated with this most potent of feelings— a testament to our dedicated quest for love, both emotionally and physically.

Love is the most precious thing we crave in our existence and we constantly seek it without understanding what love is. For this we, as human beings, suffer in wondering what love is and when or how we will find it— if we ever do. In my novel, the vampires know love from their centuries of experience, and their romantic writings elaborated by the vampire lovers, who sought the human heart to amplify and cultivate their love encounters.

Through his persistence, the vampire teaches my heroine what love is, so in the end she has no doubts of the power she gains by learning vampire love. The vampires don’t see love the way we do. They consider love a pure feeling, separate from the physical, so the vampires practice love in an ideal fashion, through their psychic connections. With their pure love, the vampires liberate my heroine’s mind so she can accept all things vampire, especially the sexual role with her wife status.

Pure Physical Sex

Are vampires sexy beasts? Yes they are. One friend asked me how legitimate it was to say vampires are sexy— as is there a historical precedence or is this just a myth of the movies. Stories about vampires from the beginning have a smoldering sexual overtone, the idea that the passion associated with love doesn’t end at the grave, and returns the vampire to their mortal lover, forms the basis of German poems written in the 1700′s. The vampire as the eternal lover is not a new concept.

The sexiness of vampires is also the way they approach their human “victims.” The seduction in preparation for the vampire bite has a palpable sexual tension: the way the vampire guides their chosen in their arms to expose the soft flesh of the neck, the arch of the vein swollen with anticipation, the gentle kisses by the vampire exploring for the perfect place, the hesitation of the vampire when they smell the tantalizing flavor of blood (now hot with fear and apprehensive expectation)— certainly the tantalizing mix of the unknown, and the allure of ultimate power offered in a kiss to immortality, is what makes the vampire sexy. No matter the manifestation, the vampire is undoubtedly a symbol of sexual potential in the supernatural world.

In my novel, the vampires are not only sexual entities but they have a biological necessity for sexual activity in their existence. The vampires instruct my heroine in all sexual matters important for her conversion into a vampire. Her instructions cover all forms of sex from vital to psychic, prescribed sex to the vampire mating ritual, and she has to accept the vampires attitude of sex before she can hope to control them. In this process of education, they transform her into a vampire sex-goddess in preparation for one important event— her marriage to their Master.

Why do I write about vampires? They are and always will be sexy and romantic. How can we ever get enough of that?

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