Dracula (and other vampires like him) is male and a sexual predator. He sneaks in through the bedroom window of ladies where they lay in their bed sleeping, and brutalizes them during the night (drinks her blood, thus making the reader think of sex). One could even say that once a woman is turned into a vampire herself, she is described as horrible. This is simply because her sexuality has surfaced. She is actively seeking sex and other males (though in some novels she seeks females as well as men). At the time that Dracula was written, this was positively horrifying. A woman was expected to lie still and not participate in a sexual act. It was looked at as a necessary part of being married, but a woman was not supposed to like it. Only the
