Not that I am any expert but I have had a fair share of dealing with the on and offline vamp Community.

As with any group of people, there are crackpots, and posers, genuine loving individuals and those just looking for a good time, and a few that seek to grow and understand who and what they are and impart that to others that might be seekers too.

I was actually a little suprised to see that there was a small sector(though they would like many to think that they are much more than half the community) That are out there beating the streets to 'grow the community' or 'get people to come out and meet like minded vamps like themselves". These people would really like you to believe that EVERYONE who is a REAL vampyre seems to gravitate to the fetish related and sexual lifestyle. This is simply not true.

To play advocate on both sides here, I will say that logically I can see where those involved in fringe sex or fetish communities would not think twice if a vamp was sitting at their club bloodletting. I could also see that the code of dress and energy would be raised and that a psy vamp could have quite the little buffet with all the tension going around.

I have to wonder though if the alliance with such groups is really a help to our vampyric community of it in most cases some of us seek out these companions because of laziness. It's not hard to be different with the 'different', None of that is going to make the vampyre community more attractive to the mainstream, or do anything to remove the 'freak' stigma of the vampyre.

Just getting involved with another hidden underground community is just for the sake of argument, changing closets. I have seen a few clubs and witnessed the activities in them as I have also inquired to friends about these places and groups. I'm sure that there are descrete, small gatherings of those that practice this lifestyle, but what I have seen , to me personally, borders of seriously dangerous and certainly not benefitial to individual vaps or the communtiy as a whole.

I will tell you a few reasons why. First there is a great deal of drugs, and intoxication, I'm not opposed to a few or even getting wasted, BUT if you are going to be engaging in ANYTHING that could endanger people's lives, you would want your whits about you. Especially if you are weilding any blades, or tying someone up, or bloodletting.

Secondly, after seeing a few displays of public whippings and teasing sessions out in the middle of a club, What part of breaking someone's skin with a porous material like leather, then proceeding to use the same devices on the next 12 people doesn't scream HEP C, strep, HIV, or simply a nasty bacterial infection? To me that seems all the more like a real danger when it comes to sanguine vampyres.

I have always believed that those that cherish their energy, their blood, and their bodies are the type of donors and people that I would call like minded to me. I certainly look after mine.

I'm not saying that everyone in the fetish scene is loose, drugged up and indiscrete. I do not believe that. But the rate at which some of the more well known names in the vamp com promote things lately, it seems as though people feel expected to dress and act provacatively when at these events and parties and conventions.

Frankly I'm wanting to see a return to the mysterious, elegant, charistmatic vampyre world and lifestyle. Strongly, silently confident and with the ability to pull those to us, though they don't know why. Without going to lazy route of making every get togther like a college theme party pick up and get laid night.

Where we were and can be selective of those that we would call ourselves 'like minded' to. Personally I have not met very many out there that ARE actually like minded to me.