I have a question, or perhaps more of an observation. For the last, say 50 years, movies and literature have portrayed vampires as erotic creatures--beautiful, seductive, sexual beings. I myself have a werewolf fetish--the thought of soft fur mixed with sharp claws and unbeliveable strength brings out strong emotions in me. (My husband does a great job pretending for me--open-minded men are a treasure)

Does anyone agree with my accessment?

D.
(blushing at her honesty)

google Goldenwolfen or Goldenwolf, werewolves as erotic has been a growing thing, in fact that's why Van Helsing was made to look like a "rock star" werewolf.

When I saw this topic's title I wondered if you had anything to do with it... Of course werewolves can be erotic, check out your stories! They fit fine it that role. There's something kind of sexily feral about them... I can't describe it without sounding like a bad telephone-sex advert... anyway...

Paddy
*slinks off to the dark shadows of 'Otherkin'*

me personaly, beleave women werewolves are quite erotic. then again i owen i she wolf. :icon6:

I think the only reason vampires are meant to be erotic is because they have ever perfect physical point in their anatomy. And an aura of charm. Not to mention people looove biting. But yeah, I think something about a werewolf is very much arrousing.

well neither was "meant" to be erotic originally. Nothing erotic about a person using an ointment to become a wolf and eat people, or a decayed corpse coming back to life to kill its relatives by drinking their blood.

but mix enough "simular" things together and use one name and walah you have today's vampires and werewolves.

two names, several dozen things mixed to make them in modern fiction.

i think it can be erotic... werewolves just have that thing about just as the same as vampires do.

Agreed and disagreed. Its not so much modern fiction that took Folk Tales and eroticized them into a warning of a different kind, unless you are speaking of Modern as in the last 150 years. The largest example of the frightening things of ancient lore becoming eroticized was in the 1800s, when simple fears of death and demons became more complex unconscious issues. Works such as Fall of the House of Usher, and Bram Stokers Dracula both represent the eroticized of death. Alot of this has to do with the sexual repression of the time, and Bram Stoker trying to demonize sexuality, which in a way backfired, for generations of people have found his work to be one of the first to represent a sort of Gothic Romanticizing of the Vampire.

Both the Vampire and the Werewolf also became figures representing the peril of sexuality in the 50's, which in its own way was a sexually repressive time. Both Wolfman and Dracula being a sort of unintentionally applealing representations of the inner beast.

I whole heartedly agree that the 'werewolf' is indeed an erotic icon as opposed to the vampire.

The wolf signifies the animal, the primal being in all of us that is devoid of moralistic reasoning and therefore sex without guilt, passion without penance.

The werewolf symbolizes change. Flacid to erect. Potency and virility.

The vampire on the other hand is a masturbatory effigy, a narcissitic totem that succours on the preserving of self through volume of 'victims' (partners)

The vampiric idea of 'no refelection', or the hatred of that, is the denial of the self and is at once self referential. It is the 'dirty old man' who buys porn but has no partner.