Stoker fills his book with sexual situations people only dream of. For people to talk of what type of sex they long for would be immoral and embarrassing and therefore the topic is left silent. It does not make desires disappear it just makes people feel bad about having them. "Hearing about sexual desires makes people more comfortable about themselves because they don't feel bad about their own feelings" (Laplanche 16) In the beginning of the novel Stoker involves three vampire ladies and a man, Jonathan Harker, in a sexually suggestive situation. Harker had been sleeping in a forbidden part of Dracula's castle when he is disturbed by three lady vampires. The first one advances as the other two watch and wait.
the girl went on her knees, and bent over me, simply gloating. There was a .
deliberate voluptuousness, which was both thrilling and repulsive, and as she arched her neck she actually licked her lips like an animal, till I could see in the moonlight the moisture shining on the scarlet lips and on the red tongue as it lapped the white sharp teeth. Lower and lower went her head as the lips went below the range of my mouth and chin (Stoker 36) .
The description of this situation leaves one to believe that Harker is being seduced by three vampires. In detail it describes what could be the beginnings of a man receiving oral sex and the beginnings of a very intense orgy between one man and three females. Men love when women use their mouth to give them pleasure. This is supposed to be dirty and something that is only accepted when it is done between two people who love each other. A man with multiple female sexual experience is also a desire held by most men of all ages in all time periods(Plamino 1). .
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Society says that being with more then one partner is wrong and dirty. Society also says that sexually engaging yourself with someone that you do not love or involving yourself with a stranger is morally wrong; thus leaving the situation at a very enticing and exciting level being that it involves many wrongs.