As I leap through the waist deep water, my feet pressed together like a fish tale, I wonder about mermaids. I wonder what they think and feel, who they are, and what they meant to the minds that first dreamt of them. To me the water is freeing. I love closing my eyes and relaxing into it, diving into the water, twirling and exploring the water.
Most mermaids are very sexual.
In pictures their breasts are often very prominent, and only half covered by hair or sea-shells. They're voices are beautiful and seducing. They are destined or doomed to fall in love in which case they must part with their fish-half and become the human wives of fisherman and such. Fully human they are capable of having sex, yet they lose their sexual freedom with which they are earlier painted. In many stories the mermaid becomes homesick and flees back to the sea.