{"id":283,"date":"2016-03-24T18:46:11","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T22:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/?p=283"},"modified":"2016-03-24T18:46:11","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T22:46:11","slug":"the-horror-of-sexuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/2016\/03\/24\/the-horror-of-sexuality\/","title":{"rendered":"The horror of sexuality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Bram Stoker\u2019s <em>Dracula, <\/em>sexuality plays a key role in both the horror genre and the readers fascination. In the line, \u201cThere was something about them that made me uneasy, some longing and at the same time some deadly fear\u201d, deadly fear and lust or longing are present at the same time. This combination of emotion itself is scandalous and may explain the intrigue of vampire in modern and Victorian times. The ways in which pain and lust are is also show to be simultaneous is when the bite is referenced as a kiss. Jonathan says \u201cI felt in my heart a wicked, burning desire that they would kiss me with those red lips.\u201d It is a compelling idea that what he desires may be what ends him. Jonathan waiting for this kiss is also described as \u201cin an agony of delightful anticipation\u201d. There is a clear binary here of lust (anticipation, longing, desire) and fear or pain (agony, fear, wicked).<\/p>\n<p>There is heavy seductive body language like \u201con her knees\u201d, \u201cbent over me\u201d, \u201carched her neck\u201d, \u201clicked her lips\u201d, and \u201cred tongue as it lapped the white sharp teeth\u201d. The vampire body and ways are made to be alluring, as to lure people to their death. These phrase emphasize the sexuality of the woman in a way that could be read as not only scandalous in Victorian times, but also scandalous now, due the fact the sex can be deadly. The art of seduction is also the art of killing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Bram Stoker\u2019s Dracula, sexuality plays a key role in both the horror genre and the readers fascination. In the line, \u201cThere was something about them that made me uneasy, some longing and at the same time some deadly fear\u201d, deadly fear and lust or longing are present at the same time. This combination of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/2016\/03\/24\/the-horror-of-sexuality\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The horror of sexuality<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3013,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123782],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}