Seduction is one of the things that I noticed Stephen King really hadn't touched on too much in this novel so far. I've seen two sections where he briefly mentions the pleasure of being bitten by a vampire. The first one is when Jimmy Cody explains his experience to Ben Mears after being bitten by Mrs. Glick.
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"And when she was doing it, I liked it, Ben. That's the hellish part. I actually had an erection. Can you believe it? If you hadn't been there to pull her off, I would have...would have let her."
And then all of a sudden, the subject changes to Ben Mears punching Jimmy Cody in the face in order to make up some story to tell the police. Stephen King spends no time dissecting that experience in the least bit.
The second experience is in the same disturbing scene where Straker is beating up Mark Petrie and Straker is telling him what will happen to him when the Barlow gets to him. Straker tells him that Barlow will have intercourse with him and then set him free. I interpreted that as meaning Barlow would bite him and turn him into a vampire, therefore setting him free when he was done with him. I am making the assumption that biting a victim is the equivolent of having sex with for a vampire.
Other than those two instances, I can't find any other references to pleasure throughout the novel. I wouldn't really bring seduction up, but that has played such a huge part in the other few vampire fictions we have read in class such as Fledgling and Interview with the Vampire. It just surprises me that Stephen King would leave that out.
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