One of the many taboos explored in the novel Dracula is sexuality. During this Victorian era, Stoker manages to quietly display the idea of ​​not only consuming one another, but also the transformation of innocence that a victim undergoes. Women of this era had two options: first to be a virgin, representing all that was pure and innocent, and second to be a wife or mother. If a woman did not fit into any of these categories, she was considered a whore and therefore not part of society. Sex plays a role in the novel representing hidden human desires and sin, whether it be the sexual act or gender. Stoker applies this idea throughout his novel and attaches it to certain characters from time to time in order to expose an adjacent side. Stoker is clever in contrasting the two best friends, Lucy and Mina, as he portrays Mina as a more respectable woman than Lucy. Van Helsing even says that Lucy is "one of God's women, fashioned by his own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven we can enter and its light can be here on earth. So true, so gentle, so noble, so unselfish – and that, let me tell you, is very much in our time, so skeptical and selfish” (Stoker 203). Stoker's view on the relationship between men and women is revisited here and he shows the reader his opinion on what a woman should aspire to. He does not sexualize Mina because she is not a sinful or wicked woman with repressed desires, but rather strong-minded and dedicated. This is why the problem in Mina's situation is gender based rather than sex based. Mina, while obedient to the situation, is not seen as an equal to the group of men trying to protect her. Van Helsing, while amazed by Mina's contributions, says: “'We men are determined – and no, are we not committed? – to destroy this monster; but that is no role for a woman” (Stoker 251). Mina readily accepts the gender role she is placed in, but at the same time she feels constrained and as if she could be more useful to men. Dracula's choice of victim also shows how Victorian society did not view women as autonomous individuals. Female vampires refuse to adhere to gender roles, much like the new Victorian woman, making them equally terrifying monsters of the time. A modern-day feminist can read the novel and recognize Dracula's female vampire monsters as heroines who are on the front lines of resistance against the exploitation and oppression of women by their patriarchal male overlords. To this end, Stoker sexualizes evil women with power potential so that they can be seen in a negative light. Regarding the contrast between Mina and Lucy: Lucy is sexualized and killed, while Mina, Stoker's perfect woman, is never sexualized and although a victim of Dracula, she continues to live a happy life with Jonathan. In summary, Stoker uses the idea of ​​oversexualized women and the supernatural to evoke his view on society, in favor of male domination, in his eyes..