In fantasy, mermaids are beautiful and gorgeous creatures, possessing a long lifespan and are exclusively mono-gender females (so no such thing as mermen) who have the ability to reproduce with a partner of any other race or species, though they mostly prefer human males to procreate since only with whom they can produce more mermaids. Longingly referred to by sailors and disdainfully by human women as "sea sluts", they're known to lure men at sea with their melodious voices, and once in sight, the men are ensnared by their beauty. Contrary to some beliefs, spread by women and the celibate, mermaids are not intentionally malicious nor do they have a taste for human flesh. A mermaid instead takes a man of her choosing to an isolated location and would spend the rest of his days having s*x w
