Deities of love, desire, lust and sex

Deities by association (gods or goddesses of love, desire, lust and sex)

Áine	Irish	♀	Áine is a goddess of love, growth, and cattle, also perhaps associated with the sun.
Aizen Myō-ō	Japanese	♂	He is portrayed as a red-skinned, frowning man, his appearance representing suppressed lust and passion.
Albina	Etruscan	♀	She is the protector of Ill-fated lovers.
Ani-lbo	African	♀	a goddess of birth, death, happiness and love
Anteros	Greek	♂	Anteros is the personification of unrequited love and punisher of those who scorn love. He is the brother of Eros.
Aphrodite (아프로디테)	Greek	♀	Aphrodite was born from the sea foam near Paphos, she is the mother of both Eros and Anteros.
Astrild	Norse	♂	The name Astrild is old Norse for Love-Fire.
Branwyn	Celtic	♀	a goddess of love, sexuality and the sea
Cliodhna	Irish	♀	Cliodha is also known as the Queen of the Munster Fairies.
Cupid (쿠피드)	Roman	♂	Cupid is the Roman equivalent of the Greek god Eros.
Eros (에로스)	Greek	♂	Eros was the god responsible for lust, love, and sex; he was also worshipped as a fertility deity. His name is the root of words such as erotic.
Freyja (프레이야)	Norse	♀	She was a goddess of love, war, fertility, beauty, magic, prophecies and attraction; Freya correspondingly became one of the most popular goddesses.
Freyr	Norse	♂	Worshipped as a phallic fertility god, Freyr "bestows peace and pleasure on mortals".
Hathor	African	♀	a goddess of love and joy
Himerus	Greek	♂	Himeros was the personification of lust and sexual desire.
Huehuecoyotl	Aztec	♂	Huehuecoyotl literally means old, old coyote.
Inanna	Sumerian	♀	a goddess of love and war
Astrild	Norse	♂	The name Astrild is old Norse for Love-Fire.
Mami Wata	African	♀	Mami Wata is often pictured as a mermaid, half-human and either half-fish or half-reptile.
Kamadeva	Indian (Hindu)	♂	Kāmadeva is represented as a young and handsome winged man who wields a bow and arrows.
Milda	Lithuanian	♀	Goddess of love.
Peitho	Greek	♀	Peitho ("persuasion") was the personification of persuasion and seduction.
Prende	Albanian	♀	When Albania became Christianized in the early Middle Ages, Prende became venerated as a minor saint.
Qetesh	Egyptian	♀	Qetesh was known as the goddess of sex but was almost never associated with fertility.
Turan	Etruscan	♀	Turan was the goddess of love and vitality. Pigeons and black swans were sacred to her.
Venus (베누스)	Roman	♀	Venus is the Roman equivalent of the Greek goddess Aphrodite.
Xochipilli	Aztec	♂	The name Xochipilli means Flower Prince.

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Freya (Norse)

Freya

Goddess of sex, fertility, war, and wealth. Originally one of the Vanir. She was the daughter of Njord, and the sister of Frey. Her daughters, by Od, are named Hnoss, who is so beautiful that whatever is valuable and lovely is named "treasure" after her, and Gersemi. She lived in Folkvang [battlefield] and each day chose half of the slain warriors to split with Odin. She had a husband named Od, whom she somehow lost and cried golden tears for. Many believe Od is Odin. Her chariot was drawn by male cats (their names are never stated) and she owned the precious Brisings' necklace, which she slept with four dwarves to acquire. She also owned a feather coat which she could use to fly between the worlds. After she went to live with the Aesir as a hostage, she taught them -- including Odin -- seidr. Some sources say Friday is named after her.

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Freyja (sometimes anglicized as Freya), is a major goddess in Norse Paganism, a subset of Germanic Paganism. Because the documented source of this religious tradition, the Norse Mythology, was transmitted and altered by Christian medieval historians, the actual role, pagan practices, and worship of the goddess are uncertain.

In the Eddas, Freyja is portrayed as a goddess of love, beauty and fertility. Blonde, blue-eyed, and beautiful, Freyja is described as the fairest of all goddesses, and people prayed to her for happiness in love. She was also called on to assist childbirths and prayed to for good seasons.

Freyja was also associated with war, battle, death, magic, prophecy and wealth. She is cited as receiving half of the dead lost in battle in her hall Fólkvangr, whereas Odin would receive the other half at Valhalla. The origin of Seid was ascribed to Freyja.

Frigg and Freyja are the two principal goddesses in Norse religion, and described as the highest amongst the Asynjur. Freyja is the goddess most honoured after or along with Frigg, and her worship seems to have been even the more prevalent and important of the two. In the Droplaugarsona Saga, it is described that in a temple at Ölvusvatn, Iceland, statues of Frigg and Freyja have been seated upon higher thrones opposite those of Thor and Yngve. These statues were arrayed in drapery and ornaments of gold and silver.

In Heimskringla, Freyja is also presented as a mythological Princess of Sweden. Her father Njörðr is seen as the second mythological King of Sweden, and her twin brother Yngve is the third.Yngve's and Freyja's mother is Njörðr's twin sister (who has been often linked to the ancient Germanic goddess Nerthus), as it is a custom of the Vanir and allowed by their laws.

Further in Heimskringla, it is written that many temples and statues of native pagan gods and goddesses were raided and destroyed by Olaf Tryggvason and Saint Olaf during the gradual and violent process of the Christianization of Scandinavia. During and after the extent that the process of Christianization was complete, Freyja and many things associated with her were demonized by the growing influence of Christian missionaries. After Christian influence was cemented in law, traces of belief went increasingly underground into mainly rural areas, surviving into modern times in Germanic folklore and most recently reconstructed to varying degrees in Germanic neopaganism.