“Native women, he claimed, were giantesses - “taller kneeling than I am standing”- and impervious to age and childbearing, with taut wombs and breasts that never sagged. “Being very lustful,” Vespucci wrote, the women used exotic devices and insect venom to “make their husbands’ members swell” to fantastic size. Best of all, they were “very desirous to copulate with us Christians,” and native men regarded it as a great token of friendship” to give the Christians one of their daughters, “even when she is a young virgin”.”