[Demonique]

I believe that sex and horror have been linked not only from the late '80's but much longer ago than that. This pairing can be seen throughout our culture back as far as the middle ages and Chaucer's Cantebury Tales. In that, he write about the 7 deadly sins (mostly about lust) and the people who have sex are the ones who get killed or punished in the most interesting, painful ways. Our tales about vampires are only a thinly veiled representation of sexual congress and look what happens to them. Sex and deadly punishment has been linked in our culture for a very long time. It lately (since the '80's) seems to be more specifically represented in horror movies but I think it always has and will always be there.