Vampire lifestyle

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The vampire lifestyle, also known as the vampire subculture or vampire community (sometimes spelled "vampyre"), is an alternative lifestyle and subculture inspired by the mythology and popular culture surrounding vampires. Participants often identify with or as vampires, drawing inspiration from various media, including gothic literature, films, and role-playing games. The subculture encompasses a range of practices, from incorporating vampire aesthetics into daily life to engaging in rituals involving blood consumption or energy work.<ref name="ResearchGate">Template:Cite journal</ref><ref name="Browning 2015">Template:Cite journal</ref><ref name="Mellins 2013">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="Benecke">Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

The vampire subculture largely stemmed from the goth subculture,<ref name="Browning 2015"/><ref name="Mellins 2013"/><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> but also incorporates some elements of the sadomasochism subculture.<ref name=ResearchGate/> The Internet provides a prevalent forum of communication for the subculture, along with other media such as glossy magazines devoted to the topic.Template:Update inline<ref name="Keyworth">Template:Cite journal</ref>

Participants within the subculture range from those who dress as vampires but understand themselves to be human, to those who assert a need to consume either blood or 'human energy'.<ref name="Keyworth"/><ref name="Williams">Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

Though the vampire subculture has considerable overlap with gothic subculture, the vampire community also has overlap with both therian and otherkin communities, and are considered by some to be a part of both, despite the difference in cultural and historical development.<ref name=fieldguide>Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="Baldwin">Baldwin, C., & Ripley, L. (2020). Exploring Other-Than-Human Identity: A Narrative Approach to Otherkin, Therianthropes, and Vampires. Qualitative Sociology Review, 16(3), 8–26. https://doi.org/10.18778/1733-8077.16.3.02</ref>

Characteristics of the scene

Two people dressed as vampires, one with fangs.
Two people dressed as vampires, one with fangs.

Vampire lifestylers might dress up in 'vampire' clothing, indulge in habits like sleeping in a coffin, and/or primarily participate in RPGs such as Vampire: The Masquerade."<ref name="Williams" />

Types of vampire lifestylers

Vampire lifestylers may self-identify with labels regarding their proclivities and interests. The following is a non-exhaustive list, and are not necessarily mutually exclusive:<ref name="Browning 2015" /><ref name="Williams" />

  • "Template:Vanchor", sometimes hematophages, are those that consume blood.<ref name="Baldwin" />
  • "Psychic vampires" claim to attain nourishment from the aura or pranic energy of others<ref name="Keyworth" /><ref name="Williams" /> in order to balance a spiritual or psychological energy deficiency, such as a damaged aura or chakra.<ref name="ResearchGate" />
  • "Blood donors" or "black swans"<ref name="Black Swan">Template:Citation</ref> willingly allow other members of the subculture to drink their blood.<ref name="Browning 2015" /><ref name="Guinn">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="Benecke" /><ref name="Keyworth" />
  • "Blood fetishists" use blood as a stimulant or sexual fetish, sometimes drinking it during the course of sadomasochistic sex.<ref name="Williams" />
  • "Role-players" or "lifestylers" acknowledge that they are human beings roleplaying as vampires.<ref name="Browning 2015" />

Sociology

Renfield syndrome is a clinical condition marked by a fixation on blood or blood-drinking.

Sex researchers have also documented cases of people with sexual (paraphilic) vampirism and autovampirism.<ref name=ResearchGate/><ref>McCully, R. S. (1964). Vampirism: Historical perspective and underlying process in relation to a case of auto-vampirism. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 139, 440–451.</ref><ref>Prins, H. (1985). Vampirism: A clinical condition. British Journal of Psychiatry, 146, 666–668.</ref>

References

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Further reading

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