Why Are Vampires So Sexy?

Okay, that title may be a little suggestive...just a tad. But this is something i've been thinking about for a while, of all supernatural creatures, how did vampires become to symbol of sexy? They're pale, depressed killers of the night, okay I can understand that being attractive to some people, but enough to be a trait all on it's own? Well actually when I think about it, the progression towards this change isn't all that surprising. People talk about how vampires back in the day were hideously monsterous creatures who you were supposed to be afraid of, and granted while that was true, there was always an element of lust to it. Just go back to the big daddy himself, Dracula. Though not the first vampire story, definitely the one to make it the most popular. In the original story Dracula does take an interest in a woman named Lucy and tries to turn her into a vampire, the book itself does have a thematic context based around love and lust and even down to the way vampires attack you is inherently sexual when it's basically just giving someone an extreme hickey. From then on adaptation after adaptation of vampires would usually contain an element of lust and/or love so it's natural progression would lead to the vampires themselves becoming sexier with time, after all, it's hard to find horrific demon monsters attractive.

So we know where it all came from, but we still need to ask the question: why? Why did we decided that vampires should be sexy? If someone were to describe a vampire to you there's nothing inherently sexy about it, a demon who can only go out at night feasts on the blood of the innocent with manipulation and violence. Now compare that to something like a Siren, a beautiful woman who tricks men into thinking she needs aid and will reward them justly only to turn out to be a monster who will slaughter them at their first chance, that's a supernatural creature that's origin is plastered with sexy. So the reasoning I can think of behind why vampires are seen as sexy is because that crosses paths with a lot of common traits people see as sexy. Take a normal vampire, a human forcefully turned against their will into a monster, that's pretty much just a bad boy with a tragic past, how many women out there see that as a sexy trait? The dark anti-social soul who's tough and dominant but is passionate and tragic, a lot of people have that fantasy of being the certain someone who can break down those barriers and change them for the better, hey, we've all been there are somepoint.

Really it does just come down to personal taste and attractions but it's easy to see how it became so common for Vampires to be seen as demonic sex symbols (Man that's a weird thing to say), a lot Vampire actions and lore is based in a surprising amount of lust and love and of course bad boys are always going to be attractive to a large quanitity of people so it's really not all that surprising of why they're sexy...Still kinda weird though.

-Danny