I know our country disposition well;
In Venice they do let heaven see the pranks
They dare not show their husbands.

– William Shakespeare

Othello, Act 3, Scene 3. Iago sows the seeds of doubt in Othello’s mind about Desdemona’s loyalty as a wife. He suggests that worldly Venetian women are by their nature sexually corrupt. They have no hesitation in having adulterous liasons with other men behind their husbands’ backs.