Overview: Paid with a Kiss gives a wide-ranging look at fairies, sex, gender, and human belief through history in Western Europe, focusing primarily on Irish, UK, and French evidence.

Verdict: By examining mythology, folklore, literature, and anecdotes, Paid with a Kiss: Love and Sex in Fairy Belief from author Morgan Daimler answers common questions of what we know about sex and sexuality among fairies and how they interact with humans, including human-fairy relationships and offspring.

Aiming to answer an array of questions on humans, fairies, and intimacy that the author has been asked over the years, Paid with a Kiss is a deep dive into nearly two millennia of folk belief.

Sometimes not knowing what you are in for makes reading a book highly enticing and thus this is where I found myself this morning, the early morning dawning, the day breaking across its lit pages, my coffee steaming and my just awoken body now sat in a comfy sunroom chair, book open and reading.

As always with Morgan’s books, this is yet another well researched, dutifully woven together, compelling and intoxicating guide to the lore and magic surrounding fairy love and sex down through history.

An expansion of her previous work on the subject, Paid with a Kiss: Love and Sex in Fairy Belief includes revised and edited material from other articles, and is intended to answer the original question and also related questions that might stem from such a topic.

Covered within the 10 chapters are such things as Gender and Sexuality, Fairies Who Love Humans, Early Modern Fairylore, Marriage to the Other and at its culmination, a section of Frequently Asked Questions - which is, in and unto itself, a veritable treasure trove of in-depth supply and demand prose on the subject matter.

With the way that Morgan lays things out, it is obvious that she hopes the book can serve as a good introduction for all the readers to the many and long held beliefs around human and fairy intimacy. Containing discussions that, in some cases might well come with some subliminal content warnings - such as reveals about sex, non-consent and dubious consent, death, kidnapping and pregnancy - Paid with a Kiss: Love and Sex in Fairy Belief is still a most magnificently update prose on what is, to many, a subject matter rarely ever discussed.

Dedicated to everyone who has asked her about his subject across the years, she hopes that this brand new book provides the answers those inquisitive minds are searching. Personally, I think it does, and furthermore, I think it will lure more curious outsiders looking in, to themselves to delve deeper into this most wondrously adroit storytelling, so to speak.

About the Author - Morgan Daimler is an author, teacher of esoteric subjects, witch, and priestess of the Daoine Maithe. Morgan is a prolific pagan writer, having published more than a dozen books under Moon Books alone, and she is one of the world’s foremost experts on all things Fairy. She lives in Gales Ferry, CT.

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