I'm nearly done with THE DEVIL MEMNOCH by Anne Rice and I just passed the part where Lestat drinks the menstrual blood from a woman and while I was aware this happens, I didn't know he just kind of ... does it in front of his kind-of boyfriend, David Talbot, and his ex-boyfriend, Armand. Like, he's just back from a tour of Heaven and Hell (where he also witnessed the crucifixion of Christ and, at the behest of Christ, drinks Christ's blood and makes him moan in the process) and then he just kind of falls into/onto this woman.
This has been my least favorite of the Vampire Chronicles so far (but not for the aforementioned reasons) but I am ROOTING for the TV show to make it to this book because I am FASCINATED with how they would make this work. The entirety of the book is basically Lestat listening to the Devil tell him the history of the world, Heaven, and Hell so it's not a great vampire book lol