Medieval Christian polemicists sexualized Muhammad into a monstrous hyperfertile pimp

Evidence

In their disturbing teachings, these ones [that is, the Muslims] recount and babble, as if proclaiming something noble, that this pimp of theirs, preoccupied with the activity of seduction, had obtained the power of Aphrodite in excess of other men; that he had received as a gift from his god a more abundant “will of Venus” than others; that he had a greater quantity of liquid for his foul activities than the rest; that he could distribute this fluid with less effort than could other men; and that he had been given the endurance in coitus and indeed the abundance of more than forty men for exercising his lust for women. The foul, fertile abundance of his rank loins [came] not from God, the begetter of all things, as this most evil robber dreamed, but from Venus, the ridiculous mate of Vulcan, that is, from the wife of fire. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 139

Categorization

• XREF: Connects directly to the reader’s ‘Muslim monster’ thesis — the sexualization of Muhammad as a monster trope parallels the immodesty moral panics and body-anxiety themes in their other reading. — connects to: Christian polemicists portrayed medieval Muslim sexuality as wholly unregulated; Medieval fixation on genital washing mirrored Christian obsession with Islamic sexual sin
• SHARE: The detail that Muhammad’s sexual stamina was attributed to Venus, ‘wife of fire,’ is a narrow, vivid tidbit for anyone into medieval Christian-Muslim polemics.