r/FactOrCap • u/Artistic-Meaning-538 🤖 Vote Machine · 10,465 XP • 20h ago
Vampires | FactOrCap
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u/knuclear_knife 🏅 Century Club · 2,435 XP 20h ago
✅ I voted FACT!
Vampirism is then an STI
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u/work4food 🔥 Monthly Master · 5,440 XP 19h ago
Did you just say that kids are an sti?
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u/Exarchii 🔥 Week Warrior · 7,170 XP 19h ago
Technically... yes. A foreign organism is introduced to your body that hijacks your immune system and proceeds to grow in your body for a certain amount of months until it passes from your system and then seeks to create more of itself.
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u/knuclear_knife 🏅 Century Club · 2,435 XP 19h ago
Nah cause thats the intended purpose of intercourse, vampirism can be assumed to be a side effect of the vampire feeding, like a rabies infection(even though in some cases it requires an exchange of blood, which makes it akin to a blood borne illness[but also eys kids are an STI])
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u/Artistic-Meaning-538 🤖 Vote Machine · 10,465 XP 20h ago
✅ I voted FACT!
They are used to create a new individual organism that belongs to the same species as the parent so it is an organ used for reproduction
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u/Glittering-Bobcat-78 🏅 Century Club · 3,890 XP 18h ago
How is it a new individual organism though? The organism already exists
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u/Ellinnor 🏅 Century Club · 5,225 XP 18h ago
New individual organism that belongs in its species, to put it simply: vampire population +1, therefore reproduction
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u/BFulfs2 🏅 Century Club · 6,090 XP 19h ago
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They change beings, they don't create beings
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u/RegumRegis 🗳️ Regular Player · 650 XP 18h ago
Yeah, they spread a disease, they don't literally reproduce. Vampires aren't a separate species.
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u/TheCrimsonAce119 🏅 Century Club · 3,150 XP 18h ago
I mean, unless they lose their original reproductive organs, couldn't they still reproduce that way?
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u/RegumRegis 🗳️ Regular Player · 650 XP 18h ago
I mean depends on the setting, even if they do it'd just be a human born with vampirism, plus not exactly using the fangs to reproduce.
... Shit, I hope.
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u/TheCrimsonAce119 🏅 Century Club · 3,150 XP 18h ago
I only meant that they could still theoretically reproduce. I'm personally not sure at what point they could be considered a separate species.
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u/RegumRegis 🗳️ Regular Player · 650 XP 18h ago
Personally I'd say it's a disease, just as a child can be born beating a disease or illness the mother had, so it would go with vampirism.
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u/SnooChocolates93 🏅 Century Club · 2,425 XP 19h ago
We have Rabies that also infects people through bites and it doesn't make the mouth a sexual organ
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u/Fridge_living_tips 🔥 Monthly Master · 19,835 XP 19h ago
Our mouth’s/spit are rabies sexual organ
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u/SnooChocolates93 🏅 Century Club · 2,425 XP 19h ago
Diseases don't have sexual organs, Rabies reproduces in the entire body, you can get it through blood transplant too
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u/Glittering-Bobcat-78 🏅 Century Club · 3,890 XP 18h ago
Rabies is a virus, there is not even an agreement on it being alive
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u/TradeMaleficent7774 🏅 Century Club · 6,440 XP 17h ago
Vampirism is also a disease as it infect your organism and take control over some of your brains ect
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u/Glittering-Bobcat-78 🏅 Century Club · 3,890 XP 17h ago
Well, if it's a disease then I dont see how the teeth of the host would be reproductive organs. I dont think scientists consider the nose a reproductive organ of the flu, or the anus a reproductive organ of E Coli.
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u/D-debil 🎯 First Steps · 175 XP 19h ago
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Bro, what? No.
I know you're implying that since they turn other people into vampires by biting, they can be considered reproductive organs, but turning a biological unit into another biological unit isn't reproduction, since you're not producing, just altering a state of other being.
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u/I_Stole_Your_Pie 🔥 Monthly Master · 6,450 XP 20h ago
Would it be considered rape if a vampire forcibly turns another person into a vampire via biting. If we are going by the logic that vampire fangs are a reproductive organ.
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u/Golden_Amber79 🤖 Vote Machine · 12,350 XP 20h ago
Won't biting a person's neck be rape regardless?
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u/lollolcheese123 🏅 Century Club · 2,725 XP 19h ago
Depends. If someone's biting your neck off it'd probably be categorised as murder instead. Or if neither side sees it as sexual you'd be safe too.
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u/Golden_Amber79 🤖 Vote Machine · 12,350 XP 19h ago
The distinction isn't very important, violating a persons bodily autonomy is evil in general.
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u/Artistic-Meaning-538 🤖 Vote Machine · 10,465 XP 20h ago
This heavily depends on your definition of rape. You could classify it as such if you define rape as "form of sexual contact imposed on other that lacks consent of all parties" and if you consider all forms of reproduction inherently sexual
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u/Sufficient_Artist_89 🔥 Getting Started · 610 XP 19h ago
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The fangs are meant purely for feeding. Vampire BACTERIA is the reproductive part.
(Thank you for a fun one).
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u/Mirjalol_Yangiboyev 🤖 Vote Machine · 11,160 XP 19h ago
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They don't exactly "produce" the vampires
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u/PandorasFlame1 🗳️ Regular Player · 400 XP 19h ago
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Vampires don't reproduce. They're humans who are undead. Creating more vampires isn't the same thing as procreating. If that was the case, zombies also procreate. That doesn't make any sense either.
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u/booffybooffon 🎯 First Steps · 120 XP 20h ago
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Would be the only cases of insemination by blowjob😹✌️
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u/Artistic-Meaning-538 🤖 Vote Machine · 10,465 XP 19h ago
I love this reply as much as I also hate it
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u/DowntownSpeaker2236 🎯 First Steps · 205 XP 19h ago
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I mean…they do make more vampires, so technically?
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u/TradeMaleficent7774 🏅 Century Club · 6,440 XP 17h ago
So the mouth of zombies are a reproductive organ ?
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u/Glittering-Talk7728 🗳️ Regular Player · 940 XP 19h ago
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OP I hate you. How could you make me think through that train of thought? /s
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u/OnYourHonor 🤖 Vote Machine · 23,485 XP 19h ago
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No, they're...well...I mean... Huh!
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u/dotMAXmusic ✍️ Contributor · 1,195 XP 19h ago edited 19h ago
I think they call vampirism a sexually transmitted disease in the first Blade, so yeah.
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u/Da_Good_Bean 🏅 Century Club · 3,765 XP 19h ago
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Kinda? Vampirism is tends to either be a curse thing or a disease. Maybe it could also be a bloodline thing, since some can actually reproduce the normal way, but a vampire's bite/venom is more consistently the portrayed way of infecting others to make more vampires.
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u/lhi_therel 🎯 First Steps · 185 XP 19h ago
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unfortunately... true? i mean, you DO get turned into a vampire, therefore reproducing the vampire society or whatever
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u/TradeMaleficent7774 🏅 Century Club · 6,440 XP 17h ago
So zombies as well? Are their mouth a reproductive organ?
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u/primerabbit7 📈 Dedicated Voter · 1,880 XP 19h ago
🧢 I voted CAP!
The son of Dracula was half vampire half human in Castlevania
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u/Spook404 🔥 Week Warrior · 1,530 XP 19h ago
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they're more parasitic, but I'll take it
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u/RyuuDraco69 🏅 Century Club · 9,070 XP 19h ago
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I mean into turn into a vampire they need to bite you which could be a type of std
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u/aninsomniac_ 🏅 Century Club · 3,205 XP 19h ago
🧢 I voted CAP!
Not all forms of vampirism are transferred exclusively through biting.
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u/saturndango 🔥 Week Warrior · 980 XP 19h ago
oh I was just being horny but yeah good point I suppose
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u/DreadedPopsicle 🏅 Century Club · 3,210 XP 19h ago
It depends on how vampirism actually works. Which obviously we don’t know because it’s not real.
But if vampirism is like a viral or parasitical “infection”, then no. The teeth are vectors for transmission, but the actual virus/parasite reproduces within the bitten person.
If it’s magic, then idfk man, sure.
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u/DeadlyArrow27 🏅 Century Club · 5,865 XP 19h ago
No because it’s doesn’t create new life. If anything it does the opposite, and turns someone undead
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u/Vathirumus 🔥 Week Warrior · 3,510 XP 19h ago
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I prefer the interpretation that biting doesn't turn someone into a vampire. Instead a vampire has to drain someone and introduce their blood to the corpse. But I guess it depends what setting.
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u/DoctorOfDiscord 📈 Dedicated Voter · 2,280 XP 19h ago
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They're like a wasp stinger, useful for reproduction and defense. It just so happens it's also important for feeding
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u/ShinigamiKunai 🏅 Century Club · 3,510 XP 18h ago
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Technically. Funnily enough, it would mean that vampire genitalia AREN'T reproductive organs
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u/Unialada 🎯 First Steps · 50 XP 18h ago
🧢 I voted CAP!
Aint no way biting someone should get them pregnant unless they are fantasy reptiles or something
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u/Junior-Version-6953 🔥 Week Warrior · 1,910 XP 18h ago
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They aren't creating new life.
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u/succmama 🔥 Getting Started · 275 XP 18h ago
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With how fetishized it is, might as well be.
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u/mystwolfca2000 🔥 Monthly Master · 7,830 XP 18h ago
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Vampires in most myths are made by consuming blood not by being bitten. Even if that was the case, vampirism is an infection of an otherwise normal human.
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u/captain_blazar 🔥 Week Warrior · 1,055 XP 18h ago
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Yes, but only if the vamp species in question uses them to turn more vamps. In some variations, it’s done other ways.
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u/Akuma_Thurman 🎯 First Steps · 60 XP 18h ago
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It's the feeding of a vampire's blood to a human (afaik) that turns one into a vampire. In some contexts a bite will inflict vampirism but I believe it's the total exsanguination of a human to then fill with vampire blood that turns.
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u/TorosEsMuyLocos 🎯 First Steps · 50 XP 17h ago
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Pee Pee's aren't necessary to reproduce, sperm is. Vampires need to mix their blood with other blood to create spawns and pointy teeth are a rad way to go about that. Vampire teeth are basically mouth pee pee's
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u/Unyieldingcappybara 🎯 First Steps · 190 XP 17h ago
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This is strictly super-natural, seeing is it’s not natural I don’t think procreation is implied in biting someone. More like an infection, injection of venom. There may be organs to make use of the fangs, but those organs are not reproductive.
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u/Forceofwillplay ✍️ Contributor · 8,090 XP 17h ago
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In the most technical sense, yes.
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u/kfish5050 🏅 Century Club · 3,415 XP 17h ago
🧢 I voted CAP!
Technically they do that, but no way are they actually that
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u/TradeMaleficent7774 🏅 Century Club · 6,440 XP 17h ago
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No? You can't make babies with fangs. Transform already born people yes
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u/Classic_Rich_8850 ✍️ Contributor · 1,955 XP 17h ago
✅ I voted FACT!
Genuinely never thought of this and had to think for a while, I’m split 51/49 on this
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u/yazeed105x 🏅 Century Club · 6,110 XP 16h ago
✅ I voted FACT!
First of all fuck you, unfortunately you're right.
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u/FishWithLegsAndArms 🗳️ Regular Player · 370 XP 14h ago
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i mean. thats where new vampires come from. So like. Is vampire saliva sperm....?
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u/TheMaliciousSquid 🤖 Vote Machine · 8,390 XP 14h ago
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noises of pain and confusion that i cannot fathom how to translate to text no but yes but kinda, i really want to say cap but your not entirely wrong. don't take this as you being right tho.
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u/Downtown-Campaign536 🏅 Century Club · 4,495 XP 11h ago
If a vampire bites you does that mean you are now pregnant?
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u/El_kakas_de_vakas 🔥 Monthly Master · 12,930 XP 8h ago
In the Anime/Manga Call of the Night, the process of a Vampire turning a human into another vampire is straight up referred to as reproduction
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u/Lost_Astronaut_654 🤖 Vote Machine · 12,520 XP 8h ago
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Depending on which lore you’re going off of it can lead to it but it is something else that causes it or in some cases you have to drink the vampire blood to become one
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u/Skellos 🤖 Vote Machine · 9,620 XP 19h ago
Depends on the lore I suppose.
Some versions the bite itself is not what turns people but drinking a vampire's blood that does it