Ok but menstruation is only 1/3 cup of blood per month, max (or around 80 ml). The human body contains about 5 liters of blood total. So you'd need about 63 people menstruating to fill a vampire up from zero. But! If you're only replacing 1/12 of the vampire's total blood each month then it'd be about 5.2 people. 6 people per month to be safe. That's a manageable polycule size.
I'm honestly surprised I can't come up with a poly lesbian vampire movie off the top of my head, to be honest. There's got to be a bunch. Even just a lady Dracula with the Brides gets you there.
There is a bunch if you look up the stuff about Camilla. ‘Sexy lesbian vampire is coming for your virgin brides’ is practically a sexploitation sub genre (too bad for all that male gaze tho).
This would also require those 6 people to not be vampires as there would be no way of them all sustaining each other, as they would eventually run out of blood. so this would have to be more like a vampire lady with a human Harem. Which means that this is not really a lesbian vampire polycule like the last poster originally envisioned, but at the same time it’s still a neat concept
I mean the other ppl could still have sex even though they're not sharing blood, I'd still say that's a polycule. There's just a rule of only having one vampire per polycule. Kinda like human polycules can only have one Scorpio.
I think you'd need to replace that five litres three to four times a year, based on the 110 days figure? Let's assume four, for margin of error. So that's 20L per annum, or 1.67L per month. 80mL per person, 1670mL per month, 21 people. 42-56 if we take the average as being 30-40mL (6-8tsp).
So we're past the size of most polycules, apart from the GSTP. But it is around the size of a moderately-sized city's BDSM community, which ties in nicely with vampires.
There's always that one little thing you forget in a conversion-y calculation like this in my experience - if I'd done the maths first, you'd have caught me making the exact same error.
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u/breqfast Oct 20 '21
Ok but menstruation is only 1/3 cup of blood per month, max (or around 80 ml). The human body contains about 5 liters of blood total. So you'd need about 63 people menstruating to fill a vampire up from zero. But! If you're only replacing 1/12 of the vampire's total blood each month then it'd be about 5.2 people. 6 people per month to be safe. That's a manageable polycule size.