Accounts of sexual relationships between mortals and supernatural beings are plentiful. They run the gamut from mythology to alien abduction. But fate always seems to confound such lovers: Graeco-Roman wood nymphs cavorted with men but also led them to their doom; Slavic Moras became so enamoured of the men whose blood they had tasted that they visited them faithfully each night but brought dreadful nightmares in their wake; a hermit was served so energetically by a succubus that he died of exhaustion within one month. Virtually every encounter is fraught with eventual misery for the mortal participant and far from being pleasureable, the encounter is most often perceived as an assualt.
The Greeks and Romans revelled in the humanity of their deities. The anthropomorphic gods were beset with such human failings as greed, anger, lust and jealousy. Very few suffered more for their divine lover's weaknesses than the numerous mortal lovers of Zeus who often felt the wrath of his wife, Hera. Lust between mortals and immortals in these stories is understood to be natural, if ill-advised. While the affairs may often come to grief, there is no suggestion that they are fundamentally immoral or that they are contrary to any universal, immutable laws.
But few religions have shared this view. Sexual relations with supernatural beings has been strictly taboo and has often been the pretext for bloody persecution.
Reports of assault from demons are still widespread and appear to be associated with sleep paralysis and other forms of sleep dysfunction. If you would like help, go straight to Nighmares.
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