Bryan Johnson Is Silicon Valley’s Sexless Vampire Future

Fictional vampires are dark, dangerous, and, crucially, sexy. From Bela Lugosi’s hypnotic stare in the first Dracula film to the tortured emo vibe of Edward Cullen, the silver-skinned heartthrob of Twilight, the undead have often been seen as the apex predators of the dating pool. That’s because their monstrosity is balanced by a seductive, often genteel charm. “There was a deliberate voluptuousness which was both thrilling and repulsive,” describes Bram Stoker’s protagonist, Jonathan Harker, in the original novel Dracula, capturing the essential vampire paradox in a single sentence.