This is sexist. I know at least two women who’d follow a mysterious voice, baggies and tongs in hand, hoping for more taxidermy material.
Germany reporting in: There are bushes in nearly every park in nearly every city over here where men are waiting to suck off other guys. No joke. That’s the reality.
Does that make them vampires?
That’s just the thing - women provide more challenge.
If you had been doing the same thing for hundreds of years you’d be bored of an easy solution as well.
I like the Witcher universe explanation for vampires drinking human blood:
In the books a vampire (Regis) explains that drinking human blood is just for getting high / drunk.
There are various different explanations across universes. But the biggest issue is - why can’t vampires just drink animal blood? It has to either be some kind of magic, allergy or inefficiency usually. Regis exists to show the book’s theme - that not every monster is a monster, and that not every human is human. So he needs a reason not to hurt people, otherwise he’s also a monster.
Some fiction has it. In vampire the requiem, low level vampires can survive on animal blood. But more powerful ones need human or even vampire blood.
Does it make them weaker or do they just die because they need more nutrients?
I remember Lumley’s Necroscope having some spiel about drinking vampire blood too. But that series of books has vampires be a leech-like creature that infects a host, not an illness or something magic that does that
In BTVS they can. There’s a vampire who’s cursed with having a soul and is therefore unwilling to hurt humans, so he just toddles down to the butcher and gets blood from them.
Soulless vampires either like the hunt or just prefer the taste of human blood. For instance, some vampires just raid blood banks instead of hunting humans.
Hey Ma! It’s that weird fucking cat again!
Yeah, but what quality blood are you getting? Vampires hunt. They select. “hey come lookitthis afore I flush it!” is going to get you some dudes, but they’re gonna taste bad.