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==Sexuality==
{{Further|Sexuality in Christian demonology}}
Demons are generally considered sexless as they have no physical bodies, but different kinds are generally associated with one gender or another. SomeMany theologians agreed that demons acted first as [[succubus|succubi]] to collect sperm from men and then as [[incubus (demon)|incubi]] to put it into a woman's vagina.<ref>Lewis, James R., Oliver, Evelyn Dorothy, Sisung Kelle S. (Editor) (1996), ''Angels A to Z'', Entry: "Incubi and Succubi", pp. 218, 219, Visible Ink Press, {{ISBN|0-7876-0652-9}}</ref>
 
[[Albertus Magnus]] and [[Thomas Aquinas]] wrote that demons and the hierarchy of angels are created by God with the same non–[[material]] substance. Although they have no body (either human or animal), they have no sexual identity and can not generate human beings or other angels. The [[incorporeality]] is related to their nature, [[eternity|eternal]] and unchangeable across the centuries. In the [[Book of Tobit]], the [[Raphael (archangel)|Archangel Raphael]] shows himself in the outward look of a human body, which is not its own.