Looking at all the vampire love stories out there I started wondering why women like me feel attracted by those blood suckers. Yes, I admit it, I wouldn't say no if a sexy vampire came along, offering me eternal love. But is it only the bonus of an endless life and a never ending love story?

Thinking of my first contact with a vampire story in my childhood and what kind of movies I saw since then I tried to figure out my phychological development. I think most of you will be able to name your first vampire story, either being a book or a movie. Mine was a series of children's book followed by the tv series. Grown up in Germany's 80ies my class teacher always read a book to us for the last 10 minutes of a lesson. One day she read "Der kleine Vampir" ( the little vampire) by the author Angela Sommer-Bodenburg and I was fascinated straight away. Then the tv series came out, based on that books. It was an American-Canadian coproduction, so maybe you have seen that, too. I was only nine years old and started to run around dressed like a vampire with a black wig. I made the costume myself and always imagined I could fly.

Being a child the attitude towards vampires was different: I didn't felt attracted by one, but wanted to be one myself: strong, able to fly, no school etc. Being a woman and having a crush on vampires is based on fundamental female needs seeking to be met by typical vampire characteristics or "vampiristics".