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1. Vampire

The vampire, a mythical monster that feeds on the blood of its victims, has been used as a symbol of sexual predation since it first entered Western literature in the late 18th century.  One of the first literary vampires, Lord Ruthven of John Polidori’s 1819 story The Vampyre, was based on the famous real-life lothario Lord Byron.  Bram Stoker’s Dracula, with its bevy of vampire brides and Dracula’s corruption of the chaste Lucy Westenra, has been described by anthropologist Maurice Richardson as a “kind of incestuous, necrophilous, oral-anal-sadistic all-in wrestling match.” Vampire fiction also provided an outlet for homoerotic themes, with Sheridan LeFanu’s 1872 novella Carmilla, about a beautiful vampire who bites her exclusively female victims on the chest, and George Viereck’s homoerotic House of the Vampire in 1907.

2.  Incubus

The incubus, from the Latin for “nightmare,” is a demon that sexually assaults women, and sometimes men, while they are asleep.  According to various legends, the incubus is said to have a gigantic penis, sometimes burning hot or freezing cold.  Some stories claim the incubus has two penises, so he can doubly penetrate his victim.  Incubi sometimes impregnate their female victims, and the resultant offspring is called a cambion.  Merlin of Arthurian legend and Shakepseare’s Caliban are two famous cambions.

3.  Succubus

The succubus is the female counterpart of the incubus.  She is a demon seductress who preys on sleeping men, draining them of their “vitality.”  The Malleus Mallificarum, or Witches’ Hammer, the handbook of the medieval witch hunters, explains that succubi stole semen from their victims, and incubi used it to impregnate the women they attacked.  Both the incubi and the succubi are traditionally believed to be the children of Lilith, Adam’s first wife in Jewish folklore.  After Lilith refused to submit to Adam by lying under him during sex, she was banished and became a demon, spawning lilim or sex demons that prey upon the living.

4.  Siren

The siren, also called melusine, mermaid, or nixie, is a mo

nster not much interested in sex herself, though she uses it as a weapon.  The siren is the Greek variant, with similar beings found in Germanic and Celtic cultures.  Sirens live in or near bodies of water, often on islands or half-submerged rocks.  They are either part human and part bird, part human and part fish, or able to shapeshift and take on the form of a nubile female human.  Sirens lure people with the haunting beauty of their appearance and their song, causing them to drown or become dashed against the rocks.  In some legends, it is implied that the sirens feed on their victims.  In others, such as that of the Rheinmaiden Lorelei, the siren is heartbroken and kills for revenge.

5.  Nymph

The nymph, a creature from Greek mythology, has given her name to hypersexual women, historically called nymphomaniacs.  Nymphs are minor nature goddesses, often living in groups and famous for frolicking naked.  Nymphs are usually associated with a particular place or geographical feature, designated for example as wood nymphs (dryads) or water nymphs (naiads) They are young, beautiful, and sexually free-spirited, but can be dangerous to humans who encounter them, causing sexual obsession to the point of madness.

6.  Satyr

In Greek mythology, satyrs are half-goat, half-man creatures associated with Pan, the nature god, and Dionysius, god of wine and pleasure.  They are renowned for their sexual prowess and insatiability and are often portrayed in ancient Greek art with erections.  Similar to the nymph, satyrs are often considered the personification of male sexual desire, and oversexed human men are sometimes called satyrs.  Satryiasis is a historical term for the male counterpart of nymphomania.

7.  Poltergeist

The restless spirit of a deceased person, a poltergeist is a ghost that is heard and felt rather than seen.  While ghostly sexual attacks and sexual possession by poltergeists are common fare in haunted house novels, there is no dearth of personal anecdotes about similar experiences.  In some cases, the poltergeist is malignant, sexually violating its victim as a form of terror or control.  Others claim to have had positive and enjoyable erotic experiences with ghosts.  There are even reported cases of the deceased carrying on affairs with their loved ones from beyond the grave.

8.  Fairie

In the folklore of the British Isles, fairies are not the innocuous Tinkerbell creatures they are usually thought to be today.  Fairies are magical and mischievous, and often dangerous to the humans who encounter them.  There are many stories in the folklore of fairies abducting humans, often for breeding stock, since fairies apparently need to keep their gene pool fresh with human partners.  Fairies have also been known to kidnap humans as lovers.  They may also use sex as a punishment against people who have found their hiding places, spied on them, or otherwise infringed upon the fairie world.  Fairie sex can be so intense that humans subjected to it either don’t survive or go insane.

9.  Unicorn

While the unicorn was often said to be a Christ symbol in the Middle Ages, there are some weird sexual connotations to the legend.  The unicorn could only be captured by a Virgin, who could lull it into security before the hunters came in to finish it off.  Many medieval pictures of the unicorn portray it resting its head, with phallic horn, in the lap of a maiden, an image with not too hidden sexual imagery.  The horn of the slaughtered unicorn was then presented to the bride and groom at the wedding feast, and ground unicorn horn, usually narwhal horn in practice, was believed to be a powerful aphrodisiac.  Such legends seem to be a thinly veiled version of pre-Christian fertility rites, rather than an allegory of Christ’s resurrection.  In other legends, the unicorn had an affinity with wild women of the forest, rather than virgins.  The original unicorn also resembled a goat, traditionally associated with untamed lust, rather than a horse.

10.  Cihuateteo

A sexual monster of the New World, the cihuateteo is a creature from Aztec mythology that seduces and preys upon men.  A cihuateteo is the restless spirit of a woman who has died in childbirth.  In addition to seducing men, the cihuateteo may abduct children and cause madness and disease.  They have long, beautiful hair and bared breasts, but skulls for faces and clawed hands.  The cihuateteo are associated with the Aztec goddess of filth and fertility, Cihuacoatl, who also presided over brothels.

Image URLs:

Vampire:  http://www.trapdoorarc.com/Burne-Jones-le-Vampire.jpg
Incubus:  http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/13/18413-004-C137BFBB.jpg
Lilith (Succubus):  http://www.hauntedamericatours.com/devil/devilwoman/images/Lilith.jpg
Lorelei (Siren):  http://www.sexualfables.com/images/Loreley-Statue.jpg
Nymphs:  http://www.iment.com/maida/family/mother/vicars/colorimages/nymphs-bouguereau2.jpg
Satyr:  http://bevhavlik.powweb.com/eBay/Satyr.jpg
Poltergeist:  http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dlZgZFQ2pf4/SoNl2NRRx8I/AAAAAAAAFrY/8JQAKLthCPw/s1600/Mark-Sacro-ghost-sex.jpg
Fairie:  http://www.howarddavidjohnson.com/Pixie%20Dust%20MMVI%20Mixed%20media.jpg
Unicorn with Wild Woman:  http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qRExF1DnDMY/Si-PBi0Cr6I/AAAAAAAABqQ/uyqgg_FJUe4/s400/Wildweibchen_mit_Einhorn,+Wild+Women+with+Unicorn+c+1500.jpg
Cihuateteo:  http://www.mexico-tenoch.com/magico/cat4.jpg