Editing Merfolk (section)

==Monstergirls==
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Mermaids are naturally among the most common monstergirls. They have a very similar problem to [[centaurs]] though, in that if they're a nonhuman animal from the waist down, where's their vagina? Also like with the centaur, different approaches to "The Mermaid Problem" have been taken. Some give merfolk the genitalia of fish, thus having fertilization occur externally (sexual interactions with humans are typically of the oral variety in this case). Others instead have the fish part start ''just below'' the genitals, which would logically result in a weird hole through the middle of their bodies. Still others have the fish part start above where human genitals would be and just slap on a forward-facing human vagina at waist-height. The simplest approach taken is making mermaids limited shapeshifters, capable of transforming their tail into legs. This is typically paired with a duration limit or need to return to water within a limited time to stop them from being reduced to strictly better humans and keep them sea creatures.

On their page titled "The Mermaid Problem," [[TVTropes]] of all sites puts forth the clever idea of replacing the fish tail with a dolphin tail. This is brilliant for more reasons than that article seems to realize, since not only does it simplify a lot of the internal biology by making them fully-fledged mammals, but there's also the fact that dolphins are actually [[Slaanesh|notoriously]] [[rape|perverted]] in regards to sexual behavior, with individuals of both sexes often trying to bone dolphins and non-dolphins alike, and there being so much sex overall that the females of some species have evolved ''an additional pelvic orifice that exists for the sole purpose of sex''. On top of that, since it's hard to hold onto someone you're constantly thrusting into when you  A) are floating around in the ocean, B) don't have arms, and C) can't coil around them like a snake or eel, dolphins of both sexes actually have ''MOTHERFUCKING PREHENSILE GENITALS''. Yeah, you're probably getting several ideas ''right now'', aren't you, you perv?

===MGE===
It'd be more surprising if the [[Monster Girl Encyclopedia]] ''didn't'' have a mermaid mamono. They are portrayed as incurable romantics who yearn to find that special someone. They also have quite a family tree, with [[Merrow]] (their perverted cousins), Sea Bishops (mermaid [[cleric]]s of the sea goddess), Mersharks (aggressive shark-based mermaids), Unagi Joro (lamia-esque eel-maids from Zipangu) and even [[Selkie]]s (wereseals) making up part of the Mermaid class of mamono.

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