Editing Lamia (section)

==[[Monstergirls]] (and biology issues)==

To get the elephant in the room out of the way, yes, [[/d/|vorarephiles]] get a serious kick out of these due to snakes swallowing their prey whole. But as for the rest of us...

One problem with Lamia monstergirls that they have in common with [[Merfolk]] and [[Centaurs]] (despite it being much more rarely discussed with Lamias compared to the other two for some weird reason) is that if they're a nonhuman animal from the waist down, where's their vagina? This might not seem like a problem at first, until you learn that a snake's cloaca is [http://mtcomparativeanatomy.weebly.com/uploads/5/4/0/4/54043291/6866311_orig.jpg at the base of their actually-very-short tail].

In fact they have a lot of the same problems in this area as the Centaurs ''and'' Merfolk each do individually, without any of the easy solutions presented by either. For example, for reasons pertaining to blood distribution, the heart would need to be in the snake part rather than the human part (or at best near where the two parts meet), meaning that placing their junk at waist-height (length?) would give them a uterus wedged between their lungs, esophagus, and trachea (and bringing squirting into the mix would lodge the bladder in there as well), and the problem gets magnified when you take pregnancy into account. Making all their organs of the above-waist human variety would be the equivalent of taking a normal human and giving them legs many times longer (and thus with many times more body mass) than said human organs are equipped to support.

You might be thinking that just putting their junk where a snake's is would be the simplest approach, after all it shouldn't be too hard for her to bend her tail up to meet my dick, right? Well yes, but it still has complications of it's own. Making those genitals human ones would A) look retarded and B) result in lamias of ''both'' sexes having to ''drag their junk along the ground when they slither'', and even if you sigh and accept having to stick your dick in an unsexy reptile cloaca there's still the issue of modesty; what the heck sort of clothes could they wear down there that they wouldn't just slither out of the instant they started moving?

Oh well. At least they should all be able to deepthroat any penis with ridiculous ease...

Funnily enough, the Scythian Echidna that forced [[Hercules]] to impregnate her avoided this problem entirely by being described as still having normal buttocks and her thighs joining into her snake-tail portion, thereby presumably still having a functional human vagina.

===Monstergirl Encyclopedia===
In the [[Monster Girl Encyclopedia]], the lamia was one of the first mamono to get her own profile. They are characterized both by their love of using their coils to hug their mates and by their possessiveness; lamia do '''not''' let their men go once they choose them, and before KC retconned out any and all "dark" content, they would actually kill their husbands if they dared to cheat on them.

Other branches of the lamia family tree, aside from the [[Basilisk]] and the [[Medusa]], include:
* Apophis: A cobra lamia from the not!Egypt region, named for the serpentine god of evil in Egyptian mythology, that uses her aphrodisiac, mind-controlling venom to conquer territories to rule over.
* Echidna: A powerful lamia variant that can give birth to almost any form of mamono besides its own, who create elaborate [[dungeon]] complexes in order to lure skilled, powerful [[adventurer]]s to claim as their husbands. Takes its name from the Greco-Roman "Mother of Monsters".
* Shirohebi: A white-colored lamia variant from Zipangu, a surprisingly shy and docile lamia mage skilled in water [[elementalism]], who tend to serve as [[cleric]]s to "Ryu", the Zipangu dragon-girl species. They're still as possessively jealous over their husband as normal lamias, though. Take their name from a famous Chinese/Japanese folk story involving a white snake who turned herself into a human and fell in love with a human man. Still retains the ability to use flames from the story but they are instead used to bind the man to become dependent only on her instead of using it to roast said man alive.
* Bunyip: A fluffy lamia variant that inhabits rivers, they suffer from such crippling shyness that they completely lose the ability to speak around guys they like, until eventually they get so overheated with lust all they can think to do is pounce on him and coil him up for mating.

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