There is a view of lore that it is based on fact. Be that as it may, it is certainly true that the Arabs traditionally admired great sexual prowess, esteeming highly the most prodigious performers. In "The Fabulous Feats of the Futtering Freebooters" the value of hemp is celebrated as causing the jade-stick to "become as hard as iron and hot as fire, fit for intercourse with a hundred girls." The penis of Abu'l-Haylukh remained in erection for thirty days; Abu'l-Hayjeh deflowered eighty virgins in one night; Felah the Negro"did jerk off his yard for all of a week;" the Negro Maymun made "sixty days of coition his score...." etc., etc., (quoted in A. Edwardes & R. E. L. Masters, "The Cradle of Erotica").