After reading the first 14 chapters of Dracula and reading over other's blogs i have to agree both http://samjanssen.blogspot.com/ and http://gothicnovel263.blogspot.com/ when it comes to Dracula and women. Dracula seems to only have the desire to pray on women, and only is using men or in this case Jonathan Harker to get what he wants.
The idea that Dracula only prays on women also connects to how Dracula wants to "own" his victims. "How dare you touch him, any of you? How dare you cast eyes on him when I had forbidden it? Back, I tell you all! This man belongs to me!" (pg 43) While Dracula is talking about Jonathan when he says this, it clear that he also believes that he owns his victims, who as far as I have read so far, have all been women.
There is a footnote on the bottom of the page saying that "some twentieth-century writers develop: that vampires can have erotic contact only with humans, not with each other." This would explain why Dracula would go after women. If he can only have "erotic contact" with humans then women would be his main focus.
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