The very act of vampiric feeding, drawing out the life's blood through a bite takes the place of sexual penetration so much so that even in the earliest film adaptations of the novel, directors and writers were instructed that the Count could only bite women to remove any suggestion of gayness or bisexuality.
Sona kanye isenzo sokuphakelwa kwe-vampiric, ukukhipha igazi lempilo ngokulunywa sithatha indawo yokungena ngokocansi kangangoba nasekuthambekeni kokuqala kwefilimu kule noveli, abaqondisi kanye nababhali bayalelwe ukuthi i-Count ingaluma abesifazane kuphela isiphakamiso sobungqingili noma ubungqingili.