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* ''[[Hyperion]]'' has one of the most disturbing examples. {{spoiler|''While having sex'' Kassad's girlfriend turn into the Shrike, a seven foot tall monster made of thorns. His penis barely gets out in time.}}
* In one of Marion Zimmer Bradley's ''Darkover'' novels, a Terran man falls in love with one of the chieri, the hermaphroditic, elf-like natives of Darkover, in her female phase. In the middle of their lovemaking, she transforms into her male form.
* Subverted in ''[[Harry Potter and Thethe Half-Blood Prince (novel)|Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]]''. Ron claimed that Fleur is way more beautiful than Tonks, never realising that a shapeshifter can be the most beautiful girl in the world, whatever your taste is.
** Not as strange, remember that Fleur is one quarter ''Veela'', which is basically a creature with super-pheromones as a superpower. Which Tonks presumably cannot replicate.
* There was a sci-fi story in which a race of aliens were taught by a human stranded on their planet to transform into humanoid forms (and wage war, which was a foreign concept to them). The shapeshifted beings ended up being attractive by human standards because a human taught them their new form. Years later, a human exploration party arrives. One human guy (a bit of a perv) commands one of the aliens to transform while he's getting it on with her. She's initially hesitant, then very reluctantly obliges... and ends up driving him insane, because her original alien form looks kind of like a huge lobster/bug that directly triggers subconscious human fears.