I have been doing a lot of research into Vampirism, not the Hollywood version, not the children's horror book version, but the true and actual people who are Vampires. They have a HUGE community base and more than 75 % of them are involved within BDSM. It is also a theory that there are a lot more involved with BDSM that do not even know they can be considered Vampires.

Go ahead and laugh about it now, but chances are you have met QUIET A FEW of them within your BDSM communities and never even knew it. I am not going to be talking about those that put on fake little fangs and go around trying to suck your blood. I am referring to those called Psi-Vampires, a specific sub category of Vamps.

There are several theories about Vampirism and how it all begins for someone, here are a few: It is believed (by many) that a person that suffers from the Vampiric condition has some kind of damage within their own energy centers. There is one theory that compares a person's Chakra point to the type of Vampirism they may have. It is also VERY common for a person to need several types of energy from others, therefore several energy centers are damaged for one reason or another. Or that a Vampire shared an energy exchange with someone and got HOOKED on it like a drug. Eventually they wanted more, crave it, need it, dream about it, etc.

I know that most of you have enjoyed Power Exchanges while playing and you get that high from being the Dominant within said exchange, soaking up like a sponge that surge of sensations that those you play with give off. That.. is a feeding.

Go ahead, sit back, chew on it a little bit.

The next time you watch someone else play, imagine watching through infrared glasses, tracking heat signatures. Each time that *enter toy here* makes contact with the flesh the energy mists out from the point of contact like drops of rain as they hit a rooftop. When you hear that gasp, see that arch you breath it in - it is like cocaine surging through your veins.

I just described a Psi-Vamp's feeding.

That look that you can give to a submissive, the one where if they were to describe it they would say that normally you have a certain look and feel about you that is every day stuff, but then you get a look in your eyes when you are thinking all naughty like and it just shoots through them. Your WHOLE AURA changes in an instant and the grow week in the knees. A Psi-Vamp describes that as your thirst showing. You can push it off for a while but with time that thirst grows and you need to play, to feed.

Have you ever felt like a caged animal? Like you need to feel your nails scratch down someone's back, or to pull on a handful of hair, or smear hot wax along the small of someone's back, or shove someone's face to your boots? *smiles knowingly*

It took me a long time to shake it off. I hated the term "feeding", I couldn't stand the idea of role players all dressed like those people in the Matrix, with fake fangs, hissing at you as if they were something to be feared - and being considered a PART OF THAT? Oh HELL no. Though, if you take time to look around the Vampire communities they can't stand that image either. Only little wanna-be's were like that. Terms like Vampire Hunters, fledgling, or turning are completely ludicrous to them. You cannot be turned, you either are, or you are not. You are not immortal, you are human that just happens to be an energy whore - to put it a little more playfully.

First let us list those types - the ones that are most common and most documented.

Like BDSM is a big ole umbrella over several little sub categories, Vampirism has the same. The two main ones being those that drink blood for energy (Sanguinarians) , and those that do not but get energy through other means (Psi). Of course there are lots of people that need all of the above. Psi-Vamps also have several little subcategories that break down to the different types. I shall do my best to explain them below:

Sanguinarian: Someone who has a thirst, need, craving for blood. Sanguinarians (a word from the Latin root "sanguinarius", meaning "bloodthirsty") are either unable to feed psychically like psi and energy vampires, or get more "boost" from the energy that is mingled in with blood than they do from feeding as a Psychic.

Psychic/Psi Vampire: Someone who "drains" energy (prana, chi, life-force, whatever) rather than blood from others. Not infrequently, psi-vamps also experience the thirst in varying degrees of intensity. Soaking in or drawing out energy form another person as previously described above.

Some of the sub categories within Psi-Vampirism:

Elemental/Nature Vampire: Someone who takes energy from the elements and nature. Examples of feeding is "drawing down the moon" or meditating to pull in energy from the earth. Becoming surged with energy from taking long walks by the ocean or in botanical gardens. Fascinated and drawn to large storms that make you hyper and excited just being around.

Empathic/Emotional Vampire: Being able to take on and/or mirror the feelings and emotions that other people feel - either happy or sad. Example: Someone is talking about something that is very painful and you begin to cry as well. Or being around or involved in a fight and the energy that others feel with angered whirls your energy up as well. An Emotional Vamp within BDSM may crave humiliation play with others, or when someone releases physically to the point of tears.

Pranic/Sexual Vampire: Where feeding is done primarily from sexual energy, or energy generated during sexual activity. The most common Sexual Vamps within BDSM are those that prefer to keep the BDSM play in the bedroom as an added part of their sex life. People who flirt constantly can also be considered within this category as they feed off of the sensual/sexual verbal ping-pong game. Also a person that is often called a tease can be grouped here as well as they love the surge they get from others when they are sexually charged.

One of the main differences between someone who has a fetish for those things, or is merely into BDSM and one who is a Vampire is that a Vampire needs these things. If they do not have them, they may have symptoms that mirror withdrawals: Depression, physical illness, tired, grumpy and agitated, until they are able to have another "exchange" with someone.

If you want to learn more about modern day Vampires, please do not hesitate to email me.

http://elorath.vampyre-almanac.com/
http://www.darkness-embraced.com/php/index.php
http://www.vampirecorner.com/
http://www.sanguinarius.org/vampire.shtml