Her character exudes many elements of hidden sexuality, which at times she wishes to express, as she states herself in a letter to Mina, "Why can't they let a girl marry three men, or as many as want her - (Stoker, 81).
The new styles' of sexuality and desire are expressed significantly more liberally in The Vampire Lestat. Lestat, like Dracula and other vampire figures, is also symbolic of unlimited sexuality, breaking taboos and blurring the boundaries in pursuit of his desires. The Vampire Lestat pushes the boundaries of sexuality beyond that of Dracula, moving past conservative social stigmas and incorporating sexual ideals in terms of incest and homosexuality. For Lestat, sexual and physical desires are satisfied by the act of drinking blood. He himself relates, " I wanted Nicki. I wanted him surely as any victim I'd ever struggled with in the Ile de la Cité. I wanted his blood flowing into me, wanted its taste and its smell and its heat."" (Rice, 149).
Elements of homosexuality also lace the novel. Lestat's relationship with Nicholas is clearly that of a sexual one. Lestat gazes on his young friend and fantasised about drinking his blood, he describes the desire in sexual terms, he lusts after him in this fashion because drinking blood conveys glorious sexual feelings. The making of another vampire is in itself a sexual act, and is perhaps the most intimate display of sexuality, by requiring the mutual exchange of blood as the bodily fluid. It is here that the new style of vampirism is overtaking that of the old, even to the extent of an incestual nature when Lestat performs this sexual act with his own mother. This is written to be one of the more sexual scenes in the novel, thus crossing the boundaries of incest and representing a new wave of morality in society, "Her lips quivered, and her mouth locked to me and the pain whipped through me suddenly encircling my heart.