There's a rather recent debate that comes up so often it feels as ancient as the mythology it forgets to research: vampires. Namely, the argument against writers that vampires can't have sex.
On the gross part, we assume the dead can't have sex. While this is logical, a little research sows that yes, yes they can. Pregnant female corpses will give birth to a baby if it's late enough in gestation; most of these reports say the woman's heart stopped and restarted after the baby was born. Aristotle is said to have been born this way (I can't find any information as to whether his mother survived). But men? Surely--yes. Male corpses, so long as the boy is very fresh, can get live women pregnant (this is what happens when an interview with a necrophile gets on the internet--someone who didn't want to know ends up finding it or hearing about it).
On the mythology end, not all vampires are dead. Some are just monsters, and most used to be werewolves before a distinction was made between the two. Dead or not, the vampires of Romanian myths were sexual predators, attacking maidens and responsible for unwanted and unexplained pregnancies. The famous Dracula derives from this, and in both film and book he is a very sexual man, hard for the chaste and sheltered women to resist.
But ultimately there is only one quick answer to the debate: vampires are made up. They aren't real. No matter the symbolism, origin, or region for them, modern or ancient, they're just legend. It's up to the authors and creators to decide if they can have sex, let alone impregnate who or what they want.
Imagination has expanded our ideas on fictional creatures, it's not for demanding a single version.
Happy V-day, by the way. Sorry for the creeps.
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