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* ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'':
** Professor X falls in love with Shi'ar Empress Lilandra during the Phoenix Saga and becomes her consort. While their respective duties kept them from truly being together, she would still send him care packages in the form of technology upgrades for the mansion.
** Dazzler of the X-Men married extra-dimensional alien Longshot, who has since their divorce gone on to make
*** Well, his superpower ''was'' [[Incredibly Lame Pun|"luck"]].
* The [[Marvel Universe]] is full of these things. Captain Mar-Vell has at least three children, none of his own species, for instance.
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* Inverted in Octavia Butler's ''[[Xenogenesis]]'' series, where it's [[wikipedia:Oankali|the aliens]] that want to crossbreed with the humans and every other race they come across. Given that they're all passive-aggressive tentacle-covered anemone-like things, this takes some work.
* James Tiptree, Jr's story, ''And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side'' - albeit with rather [[Squick|unfortunate]] [[Unfortunate Implications|implications]] as to the eventual fate of the humans involved.
* Used in Erich von Daniken's nominally nonfiction ''Chariots of the Gods'' to argue that
* Subverted in ''The Gods of Xuma'', where the human explorers discover, with some frustration, that those good-looking humanoid aliens aren't "mechanically" compatible.
* ''[[Foundation]]'':
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* This trope is definitely [[Older Than Feudalism]]; in Lucian's ''[[True History]]'', some of the narrator's traveling companions have sex with tree-women on a remote island, and end up stuck to them.
* In [[L. Sprague de Camp|L Sprague De Camp]]'s ''The Hostage of Zir'', one of the characters comments that [[The Bible]] forbids fornication, sex with a human you're not married to, and bestiality, sex with a dumb animal. But it says not a word about fun with a [[Green-Skinned Space Babe]] on the planet Zarathustra.
* Played with in [[Alan Dean Foster]]'s ''[[Humanx Commonwealth]]'' series, novel ''Bloodhype'', in which the [[Really Gets Around|rather promiscuous]] Kitten Kai-Sung has some fun [[
* In [[Mike Resnick]]'s ''The Outpost'', [[Magnificent Bastard]] Hurricane Smith, one of the galaxy's top bounty hunters, has this trope has his main passion in life. He's already had five ex/late-wives, all different alien species, as he finds human women to "all look the same". After he and his fellow bounty hunters help save the galactic human Democracy from a genocidal alien invasion, he is last seen in romantic pursuit of a ''sentient spaceship'' (with female A.I.), as he rebounds from the death-in-battle of his last wife, an insectoid shapeshifter.
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** The short-lived sequel ''[[Crusade]]'' reveals that human-Pak'ma'ra porn exists. Also, certain creatures living in hyperspace may try to mate with passing starships.
** According to [[J. Michael Straczynski]], one of the [[Executive Meddling]] demands for the series that he turned down was a demand for the introduction of a "sexual explorer" character whose official job would be this.
** Note that Sheridan and Delenn ''don't''
* In the ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Star Trek the Next Generation]]'' episode "First Contact", Commander Riker gets an offer to help him escape a hospital facility from a nurse in exchange for this.
{{quote|'''Riker:''' "The things I do for Starfleet."}}
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