These Lesbians Are Vampires!

You may be perusing Literotica or another [lesser] erotica website. You may find a new lesbian erotica tale that you start reading. And you may say to yourself, hmm, this lesbian erotica seems odd, but I can't quite put my finger on it. Allow me to assist, Fearless Reader. For in fact, you are not reading lesbian erotica -- you're reading vampire erotica. In these stories, lesbianism is portrayed as something that can be spread like the fucking plague, or, like, you know ... vampirism.

Now, can lesbians be vampires, and vice versa? Of course. In fact, there's a whole subgenre built around precisely that. But there are also stories out there that seem to want you to believe that they're lesbian tales set in the real world, where in fact the real world is nowhere in sight, stories that only make sense if you accept supernatural elements in them, but that never admit being supernatural stories.

Some points to consider, if you will:

1. The initial sexual encounter almost always involves a heterosexual woman ("straight") who has never had sex with another woman before. The encounter is almost always portrayed as an initiation in which the straight woman is docile and/or submissive.

2. The initiating homosexual woman (the seducer) is almost always dominant and older.

Now, you may be saying to yourself, "But caleb35, those aren't necessarily attributes of a vampire story," and you'd be correct. God only knows, I've dabbled in these tropes myself (though I'd claim that I'm more interested in older-younger, power dynamics, and the lesbian as Other, rather than vampirism per se, but that's a discussion for another time with my therapist). And if the points above are on their own, I'd say maybe you're right. It's when those points are combined with the ones below that you're on your way to Vampire Town:

3. The older, dominant lesbian somehow has an almost supernatural ability to manipulate, sway, and outright compel obedience from the formerly straight protagonist despite any observable mechanism(s) (or rational explanation) by which this manipulation/compulsion is exercised; the dominant lesbian just has a CERTAIN WAY ABOUT HER.

4. The protagonist has not simply had sex but has been "turned" -- she never thought about sex with a woman before, but going forward men won't be enough for her, she's a completely new person (we are told repeatedly); there's no going back. The protagonist is unable to STOP thinking about sex with women. It consumes her every thought, she can't stop seeing women as only sexual objects, she absolutely has to feed on blood, er, I mean, pussy.

5. The dominant lesbian is never on her own, oh no, she's part of a veritable posse of dominant lesbians who get together on occasion to trade tales, anecdotes, possibly photos and/or souvenirs. This group may even be referred to at least once in the story as a coven, as in a gathering of witches ... and which is also the term for a gathering of vampires. At least one of these women will be ice-cold and cruel, like a character from the 1983 movie The Hunger -- a vampire movie.

6. But wait, there's more! It's not enough that there's a posse of them, oh no, there's also a goddamn sire, one lesbian who's older than all the rest, and who very likely was the first to convert, I mean turn, I mean seduce all the other women in their little garden club.

7. The newly lesbian protagonist goes out to convert other women to being vampires, I mean, being lesbians. This has come up in other lesbian erotica and has been called out several times before, such as by LesbianChickLit back in 2014 in her excellent essay, "Top Twelve Signs Your Lesbian Erotica Was Written by a Dude (https://www.literotica.com/s/top-12-signs-your-lesbian-erotica). In step 12, LesbianChickLit wrote that the "new lesbian" had "to go seduce as many more women as possible to be new homosexual recruits, as though lesbianism were a doomsday cult or a pyramid scheme always seeking new members." -- or like a vampire cult.

8. Finally, no matter how much time apart (even years or decades), the seduced party can be counted on to return upon request for another bout with their seducer, because we all know, when you break up with someone, you always get back together with them years later on short notice, no matter what.

So there you have it, Fearless Reader, the hallmarks of the vampire story masquerading as a lesbian tale. Does that mean that you can't enjoy these types of stories? Of course not, enjoy away ... but let's all be on the same page and agree upon what it is that we're enjoying :)