Haematomania, The Craving To Drink Blood

[JackLuis]

Real-life vampires: Hollywood has how we drink blood all wrong

Real Vampires!

Drinking blood isn’t what Hollywood makes it out to be, according to real-life vampires.

First of all, there’s no biting – that’s neither safe nor sanitary – and with too many vital arteries, the neck isn’t the favored spot. Transactions aren’t carnages leaving the victim lifeless behind in a dark alley, and nor do vampires sleep in coffins or burn in daylight. They’re generally cool with garlic. Most of them don’t even have fangs.

Instead, modern vampires get their sustenance from inch-long incisions made by a sterilized scalpel on a fleshy part of the body that doesn’t scar. Though the vampire may suck it up directly from the source, medically trained personnel usually perform the procedure. There’s paperwork too: “donors” don’t just have to consent, but also provide health certificates proving the absence of blood-borne diseases. Still, feeding is a sensual and sacred ritual.

Glad I'm not in Hollywood!

 

[HandsInTheDark]

Perhaps it's an odd thing to say on this site, but you show me anything weird, bizarre or outright sick, and to someone it's a sensual and/or sacred thing.

Let's face it, with a population of 7+ billion people, and normal distributions being what they are, you probably can't come up with anything, no matter how whackjob, that doesn't have a few hundred adherents. Some people find beauty in the diversity; but I spend the odd moments trying not to gag.

The larger the earth's population, the more standard deviations you need to account for all the weirdness. We're past six now. Humanity IS getting stranger; you're not imagining it.

 

[TamLin01]

I've always been surprised blood isn't a more common kink than it is, although I guess that probably has to do with the fact that it's the safer sex equivalent of trying to sculpt ice with a flame thrower.