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- Nov 17, 2020
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Wiki might be more reliable than you, since they use actual sources instead of some mental gymnastics about semantics.well, wikipedia is as reliable as a source as any other freely editable content on the web. it is crowd-based, which does not make it necessarily right.
"succubus" and "incubus" are medieval latin terms. Latin as a language has gendered nouns; you recognize a noun's gender by its ending. "succubus" is a masculine noun, the feminine corresponding noun would, in fact, be "succuba". you can, in fact, find medieval sources referring to succubae (plural of succuba) in cases where they point out that the seducing demon appears in female form; the assumption that only female-bodied demons would be able to seduce men (and therefore the equation of succubus with female demon) came later and was not part of the original meaning. that you can still see by having a closer look at the word:
succumbere is a contraction of the preposition "sub" (under) and "cumbere" (to lie down). succubus is the masculine gendered person doing succumbere.
if you can only see women as the ones lying under a man, then you see a succubus as female; if you just look at the word as it is and broaden your hoizon, you see more possibilities
The lore about mythical creatures is not based on the ethymology of their names, which also doesn't have just one possible interpretation btw. So if a 
- May 6, 2021
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wow when a sissy reads this ahahah xDI wanted to like Yaoi, but they look like girls with dick
- Jul 20, 2017
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never realized i would learn so much when im here to just masturbate then cry at my life decisionswell, wikipedia is as reliable as a source as any other freely editable content on the web. it is crowd-based, which does not make it necessarily right.
"succubus" and "incubus" are medieval latin terms. Latin as a language has gendered nouns; you recognize a noun's gender by its ending. "succubus" is a masculine noun, the feminine corresponding noun would, in fact, be "succuba". you can, in fact, find medieval sources referring to succubae (plural of succuba) in cases where they point out that the seducing demon appears in female form; the assumption that only female-bodied demons would be able to seduce men (and therefore the equation of succubus with female demon) came later and was not part of the original meaning. that you can still see by having a closer look at the word:
succumbere is a contraction of the preposition "sub" (under) and "cumbere" (to lie down). succubus is the masculine gendered person doing succumbere.
if you can only see women as the ones lying under a man, then you see a succubus as female; if you just look at the word as it is and broaden your hoizon, you see more possibilities