[identity profile] darkblade.insanejournal.com 2009-11-04 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
No it doesn't.

The original vampires were purely savage creatures whose attacks were akin to barbarians raping and murdering civilized folks. Bram Stroke's vampires while more cultured and the sexual elements increased only improved themselves as far as date rape. So sex with vampires being used as deus ex machina has no mythological roots.

For the life of me I can't even think of an example of werecreature sex in fiction at all from before the furry fandom became well known so I really don't see any mythological basis for the werecreatures deus sex machina.

[identity profile] jupiterrhode.insanejournal.com 2009-11-05 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
Not with vampires specifically, but sex and love have always been used as deus ex machinas in fiction, and now that vampires have transformed form mindless savage to suave sexual bring it makes sense that the sex deus ex machina follows them over.