Reading some of the comments there (I clicked on both links, omg), I think the idea is that she used honey (by bees) as lube.

Ghastly as it is.

I read some of the Xanth novels, and remember the 'humans as cows' story from Ellison's anthology, but gave up on him fairly early in the Xanth series as the fixation on panties got more and more obscene--well before this kind of crap. Thank heavens.