In the short story “Bloodchild,” by Octavia E. Butler, is filled with grotesque descriptions and scenes that really get the reader’s attention. The scenes in this story offer a wide variety of feelings to the reader ranging from feeling sick from too much gore to feeling sympathy for characters almost committing suicide. Specifically, this papers considers the steamy alien-human sex scene at the end of the story, the reader pictures some very unnatural phenomenon in their minds. This scene takes place at the end of the story, where the Tlic, T’Gatoi, and the Terran, Gan, have a passionate and emotional scene together. Gan finally accepts to allow T’Gatoi to use him as a host body, instead of Xuan Hoa. Butler uses a very fragile and dark
