Well, clearly if they seduced sailors, there must have been something to seduce them to do... o.O (Or maybe the sailors just never found out about the fish anatomy issue because the mermaids killed them first?!)
Thoughts you'll have to wait a good few years to share with your 2.75-year-old :D
Yes, they have breasts, which mammals (but not fishes) use, so perhaps they conceive in the mammalian way... or maybe the breasts are merely like the dangling lure on an angling fish...
Reminds me of the Red Dwarf episode where the Cat is granted his wish of a half-fish, half-biped lover. You've got it the wrong way around, his friends tell him, but the Cat has (atypically) thought things through...
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Thoughts you'll have to wait a good few years to share with your 2.75-year-old :D
Since mermaids have belly button (I think), and have mermaid babies, I would say they have a vagina. ;)