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The short of it is that the dangerous aspects of the target are sexual advertizements.

The BBC documentary The Human Animal actually explains part of the reason this trope exists as well as All Girls Want Bad Boys AND I Can Change My Beloved in simple biological terms.

In Kamisama Kiss Nanami falls in love with her familiar and guardian Tomoe a Little Bit Beastly White-Haired Pretty Boy Kitsune.

In Wild Fangs, Syon, upon seeing Mao's beast form, instead of thinking "I could get so much money for him" like his fellow bounty hunters, decides to protect (and woo) him instead.

Shinra from Durarara is exclusively attracted to his Dullahan housemate Celty - Not in spite of the fact that she's a headless unselee Psychopomp, but because of it.

And is turned back on when she learns that while not evil or outright violent, he's STILL the most powerful thing walking. and is disappointed when she finds out he isn't.

Ryuuko Konuma of Wolf Guy Wolfen Crest certainly believes this trope, though instead of liking the protagonist's more positive traits, she actively hopes he is the most evil and violent thing that ever lived.

Evangeline of Mahou Sensei Negima deliberately tries to play the Vampires Are Sex Gods idea for all it's worth.

Ultimately followed by I Can Change My Beloved in most cases. For fanbase attraction to a monster or Big Bad, see Rule 34. Related to Vampires Are Sex Gods, Villain Decay, Bishounen Line, Horny Devils, Interspecies Romance and The Taming of the Grue.

On the other hand, see Cute Monster Girl. Also, considering some particular forms of mythology such as Horny Devils and the number of god/mortal pairings in Classical mythology, this attraction to the exotically dangerous may simply be an endemic part of human thought, and reflected in stories throughout history.ĭouble Standards may apply, but this seems to happen mainly with human women and masculine beasties. This phenomenon has been around, especially applying to vampires, for quite a long time, making this Older Than They Think for people assuming this to be only a recent phenomenon. At first, said monster will regard the woman as either a nuisance or an actual prey item, but through The Power of Love, she will persevere and manage to transform him into a Bowdlerised version of the source myth, perhaps retaining some rough edges but otherwise a relatively decent being. The main character will be an ordinary woman, the better for the reader to relate to her, and the love interest may be anything from an ordinary man with a monstrous curse to a ravenous werewolf, bloodthirsty vampire or even a cruel and inhumane demon. Most often this is seen in erotic romance novels, or their counterparts in other media. Yet often as not, these now romantically inclined monsters will usually retain their definitive characteristics-such as the fact that they must prey on humans to survive, derive power from suffering, or are just plain evil. Positive attributes of these creatures will be exaggerated, if not fabricated out of whole cloth, and negative aspects will be reduced or removed entirely.

It's like All Girls Want Bad Boys taken to absurd levels. Accurate, no?Īn increasingly common phenomenon where mythical creatures traditionally feared and shunned, especially such horror staples as vampires, werewolves and demons, somehow become the targets of sexual desires. Evolution of a Hero, from Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitches' Guide to Romance Novels.