Technically speaking, there were no such thing as female fauns or satyrs in classical Graeco-Roman mythology; the goat-men mated with nymphs and sometimes human women. Since the Renaissance times, though, the "fauness" has appeared as an image of female sexuality, either as a temptation or as the symbol of a simple, natural state.
This brings to my mind a myriad of questions, and none of them are appropriate.
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