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This trope is when [[Love Is in the Air]] is caused by the presence of an alien or fantastic creature, and works like a more passive version of [[Aliens Made Them Do It]]. It's generally a first-season ploy by sci-fi shows to get ratings through sex. Can also be [[Fan Service]]. For the single-target version, see [[Pornomancer]].

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== Literature ==

* In ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy/So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish|So Long And Thanks For All The Fish]]'', the mythical Fuolornis Fire Dragons are said to have had this effect:

{{quote|There is, for some unfathomed reason, something almost unbearably sexy about having huge fire-breathing magical dragons flying low about the sky on moonlit nights which were already dangerously on the sweet and fragrant side... No sooner would a flock of half a dozen silk-winged leather-bodied Fuolornis Fire Dragons heave into sight across the evening horizon that half the people of Brequinda were scurrying off into the woods with the other half, there to spend a busy breathless night together and emerge with the first rays of dawn all smiling and happy and still claiming, rather endearingly, to be virgins, if rather flushed and sticky virgins. Pheromones, some researchers said. Something sonic, others claimed.}}

** Gold dragons and gold and green fire lizards also have this effect on each other, with sometimes fatal consequences. The males are triggered to a mating flight by a female's heat, and if a non-broody female is in the area when a mating flight happens, she may be triggered into her own heat and fight the first female for possession of the males.

 

* In the ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' episode "Hathor", a Goa'uld who has taken over the role of the Egyptian goddess of [[Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll|Fertility, Music, and Inebriation]] finds her way into SG-1's base and turns every man there into crush-addled slave via [[Love Is in the Air|some unknown brew of pheromones and other stuff]] before using [[Cunning Linguist|Daniel]]'s DNA (and by "using Daniel's DNA," we mean "making him have sex with her while under her mind control gas," and no, it [[Rape Is Ok When It Is Female On Male|wasn't okay]].) to father her children.

** A brand of the stuff that skips the romance part is used in later Goa'uld's arsenals. One whiff is apparently enough to brainwash someone indefinitely until it can be counteracted.

* ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise|Star Trek Enterprise]]''. The famous Orion slave girls make an appearance, and are somehow able to give all the Earth women headaches and all the men hard-ons. Later the Orion captain admits that actually men like him are the slaves, to these women. Fortunately [[Mindlink Mates]] T'Pol and Trip are immune and so help take back the ship.

 

 

== Video Games ==

* [[All There in the Manual|According to the backstory,]] [[Darkstalkers|Makai]]'s succubi, including Morrigan and Lilith, are able to magically generate intense and spontaneous lust in mortal humans (though how much this is magic and how much of them being sexy [[Horny Devils]] in [[Stripperiffic]] outfits is up for debate). [[Out with a Bang|Also, their bodily fluids cause instant death.]]

 

 

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