The cover literally shows a woman in an amorous clinch with a fish; the novel actually tells the story of a woman who has a torrid love affair with a merman. Now, one fish-fucking opus in the space of a year might be a blip. Two seems very much like a trend. Though, to be clear, dolphins are not fish. Let them touch us?
Ancient fish were first to have sex - but sideways
Poor Women in Malawi Forced to Trade Sex for Fish | Voice of America - English
Women facing hunger, or trying to feed their families, sometimes resort to having sex with fishermen in order to get something to eat. Women carrying buckets each morning to buy fish at Lake Malawi is a common sight in the Makawa area. Cecelia Iman is secretary of the Village Beach Committee, responsible for taking care of lake resources in the area. Most fishermen came to the lake with a mission that they will find women right here. Women are too desperate for fish. And also most of the fishermen are just impregnating the women then run away, leaving them struggle taking care of babies. Although transactional sex between women and fishermen in Lake Malawi is rampant, stigma and discrimination make it difficult to identify those involved.
Margaret Howe Lovatt tried to teach Peter the dolphin how to speak English but their relationship progressed to a whole new level. A woman who had sex with a dolphin as part of a scientific study has spoken out for the first time. During the swinging 60s, animal researcher Margaret Howe Lovatt was part of a Nasa-funded experiment on the US Virgin Islands to teach the intelligent sea creatures how to speak English.
Scientists have thrown off the covers and revealed the origins of sex, discovering that it wasn't always performed as we do it today. A team led by renowned Australian palaeontologist John Long has pinpointed the time in evolution when intercourse developed as a method of reproduction in our distant ancestors - ancient armoured fishes called antiarch placoderms. Fossils of these ancient creatures, which ruled the earth around million years ago, show they were the first animals to develop specific male and female genitalia, allowing them to have internal sex.