A love god or goddess is a figure in mythology linked to love, romance, sex, or desire. These deities are often found in religions that believe in many gods. Female gods connected to love and sexuality are frequently associated with beauty and other traits traditionally connected to women.

Sub-Saharan Africa

• Anansa, goddess of the sea, charm, and beauty.
• Baron La Croix, loa of the dead and sexuality.
• Baron Samedi, loa of the dead, sex, and resurrection.
• Erzulie Freda Dahomey, loa of love, beauty, jewelry, dancing, luxury, and flowers.
• Osun, goddess of luxury and pleasure, sexuality and fertility, beauty and love, the river and fresh water, worshiped in Ifá, Yoruba religion, Dahomey mythology, Vodun, Santería, Candomblé, and Haitian Vodou.

Afroasiatic Middle East

• Astarte, goddess associated with love, war, and fertility.
• Bastet, goddess linked to cats, love, protection, beauty, perfume, and dance.
• Bes, god connected to music, love, and dance.
• Hathor, goddess of love, beauty, and music; originally a goddess of the sky.
• Min, god associated with reproduction, love, and sexual pleasure.
• Zamani, god linked to love, beauty, and sexuality.
• Ishtar, goddess associated with love, beauty, wine, war, and fertility.
• Nanaya, goddess representing sensuality, attractiveness, and sexual desire.
• Aisha Qandicha.

Western Eurasia

• Prende, goddess of love, beauty, and fertility.
• Milda, goddess of love and freedom.
• Dogoda, Polish spirit of the west wind, associated with love and gentleness.
• Dzydzilelya, Polish goddess of love and marriage, sexuality, and fertility.
• Siebog, god of love and marriage.
• Živa, goddess of love and fertility.
• Lada, goddess of beauty and fertility.
• Jarilo, god of fertility and springtime, sometimes considered god of lust and passion.

• Áine, Irish goddess of love, summer, wealth, and sovereignty; possibly originally a sun goddess.
• Branwen, Welsh goddess of love and beauty.
• Cliodhna, Irish goddess, sometimes identified as a goddess of love and beauty.

• Asmodeus, demon of lust in medieval demonology, found in the Ars Goetia.
• Babalon, godform of lust, carnality, and the liberated woman in Thelema.

• Eostre, Germanic dawn goddess.
• Freyja, goddess of love/sex, beauty, seiðr, war, and death.
• Frigg, goddess of marriage and women.
• Lofn, goddess who is allowed by Frigg to arrange forbidden marriages.
• Sjöfn, goddess associated with love.

• Aphrodite, goddess of love, sex, and beauty.
• Apollo.
• Dionysus, god of wine and pleasure.
• Eos, the Greek dawn goddess.
• The Erotes: Anteros, god of requ

Asia-Pacific / Oceania

• Bangan: The Kankanaey goddess of romance; she is the daughter of Bugan and Lumawig.
• Obban: The Kankanaey goddess of reproduction; she is the daughter of Bugan and Lumawig.
• Amas: The Aeta deity who inspires feelings of pity, love, unity, and peace.
• Dian Masalanta: The Tagalog goddess of lovers; she is the daughter of Anagolay and Dumakulem. She is a protector of lovers and new generations. The Spanish called her Alpriapo, similar to the Western deity Priapus.
• Mangagayuma: The Tagalog deity who creates charms that bring love to the heart; she is one of the five agent brothers.
• Agkui: The Manobo deities responsible for sexual excess.
• Tagbayaw: The Manobo goddess who causes incest and adultery among humans.

• Jiutian Xuannü: A goddess of war, sex, and longevity.
• Yue-Lao: A god of love who connects two people with an invisible red string.
• Tu Er Shen: A deity who watches over love between homosexual men.
• White Peony (Bai Mudan or Pai Mu-Tan): A goddess who tempts men, especially those who live simple, holy lives.
• Wutong Shen: A group of five deities from Southern China who took women by force and controlled them.
• Baimei Shen: A Chinese god associated with prostitution. A prostitute was required to make a sacrifice to him during her first work with a client.
• Qian Keng (Peng Zu): A god of sexual practices focused on health.
• Chuangmu: A goddess who oversees the bedroom. She and her husband, Chuanggong, watch over events in the bedroom, such as sex, sleep, and childbirth.
• King Zhou: One of the worst tyrants in Chinese history; he is known as the god of sodomy.

• Daikokuten: One of the Seven Lucky Gods; he is a god of prosperity and is often shown with a large phallus.

• Ông Tơ and Bà Nguyệt: Two gods of love and marriage. Bà Nguyệt holds a fan to bring harmony, while Ông Tơ holds a red thread to connect couples.

• Aizen Myō-ō (or Rāgarāja): A deity who turns worldly desire into spiritual growth; his red skin symbolizes hidden lust and passion.
• Kuni: A god of love.
• Kurukulla: A Tibetan goddess linked to rituals involving magnetism or enchantment.

• Inanna:

North America

• Ixcuiname, goddess of strong desire for physical pleasure.
• Teicu, goddess of strong desire for sexual activities.
• Tiacapan, goddess of intense longing for sexual needs.
• Tlaco, goddess of deep yearning for sexual connection.
• Tlazolteotl, goddess of lust, physical pleasure, and sexual wrongdoing.
• Xocotzin, goddess of strong sexual desire.
• Xochiquetzal, goddess of sex and beauty.
• Xochipilli, god of homosexuality, love, art, games, beauty, dance, flowers, maize, fertility, and song.

• Guede Nibo