Christian polemic attributed sexual licentiousness to Islam continuously from medieval to modern times

Evidence

The accusation was, as it still is, very frequently made, that Islam either permits, or else that it encourages, unnatural intercourse between people of the same or of opposite sexes, and, indeed, any sexual act whatever, for its own sake. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 782

Categorization

  • XREF: Directly echoes the vault claim about ‘Islam’ being constituted as the West’s licentious/moral negative — the durable slander of Muslim sexual excess.
  • DEFINE: Identifies ‘quicumque actus venereus’ — the trope of Islam sanctioning all sexual acts — as a persistent polemical construct.