Intercourse, by: Andrea Dworkin - Feminish

The sexual predator is murderous, a parasite that kills thehost through sex, draining its body of blood; Dracula asleep“lay like a filthy leech, exhausted with his repletion. ” 116The realsexuality—eternal, inescapable—is primitive and animal, killeranimal:“and as she arched her neck she actually licked her lipslike an animal, till I could see in the moonlight the moistureshining on the scarlet lips and on the red tongue as it lapped thewhite sharp teeth. ” 117 The humans are passive, waiting, female.Even the approach of the vampire—in this instance, an anonymousfemale vampire setting upon Jonathan Harker when he istrapped in Dracula’s castle—is inexpressibly thrilling:I could feel the soft, shivering touch o f the lips on the supersensitiveskin o f my throat, and the hard dents o f two sharpteeth, just touching and pausing there. I closed my eyes in languorousecstasy and waited— waited with beating heart. 118Mina’s first time with Dracula showed her reluctance, her onlyappearance of Victorianism—or is it resistance to rape? “ I laystill and endured; that was all. ” 119But soon after, with her husbandasleep, Mina and Dracula couple right next to him:With his [Dracula’s] left hand he held Mrs. Harker’s hands,keeping them away with her arms at full tension; his right handgripped her by the back of the neck, forcing her face down onhis bosom. Her white night-dress was smeared with blood,and a thin stream trickled down the man’s bare chest whichwas shown by his tom-open dress. 120The pull of Dracula’s sex is not possible to refuse; one becomesa carnivore; the sex is a permanent physiological and