Claims of Muslim sexual monstrosity were not restricted to polygamy and pedophilia. Fantasies of Muslim sexual power included Prophet Muhammad's superhuman sexual abilities and energy, which influenced later mythologies, including claims of abnormally large genitalia possessed by Muslim men. One Christian text claims that upon entering heaven, Muslim males were rewarded with a penis so long that it required "seventy Christians and seventy Jews to carry it before him." Many centuries later, during the colonial era, Europeans claimed that croco-sapiens roamed the Nile, crocodiles with Egyptian—that is, Muslim—genitalia.

XREF: Connects to broader scholarly literature on orientalism and how colonizers deploy sexual stereotypes to justify subjugation, as in Edward Said's work.

Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imag…, loc. 137