I've only ever read Lackey's epic fantasies, but I've heard her name tossed about in terms of UF before. She's a big name in epic fantasy, so if she wrote UF in the 90s, I could see her as having some sway.
Definitely a good point. Vampires haven't always been sexualized, and occasionally they still aren't (the movie 30 Days of Night in 2007 springs to mind). I wonder if our perception of vampires has become a sex metaphor because of the MUF/paranormal romance boom that placed vampires in a sexual context, and so certain parts of society have begun to think of them that way? So the linear progress wasn't vampire --> sex metaphor but rather sexual context --> vampires --> sex metaphor. Hmmm.
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Definitely a good point. Vampires haven't always been sexualized, and occasionally they still aren't (the movie 30 Days of Night in 2007 springs to mind). I wonder if our perception of vampires has become a sex metaphor because of the MUF/paranormal romance boom that placed vampires in a sexual context, and so certain parts of society have begun to think of them that way? So the linear progress wasn't vampire --> sex metaphor but rather sexual context --> vampires --> sex metaphor. Hmmm.
Abstinence porn. Oh my, haha.