Many resorted increasingly to warfare with both native and colonial enemies to replenish lodges. Once captured and brought home, prisoners were treated well, ritually separated from their former allegiances, and adopted fully and faithfully into the suffering clan in the precise place of the deceased. This process served the dual purpose of healing the losses of the grieving group while removing kin from the ranks of the enemy. Intermarriage and sexual relations tended to be in the patriarchal colonial societies as Indian women felt free to move in with European traders, hunters, and soldiers as Indian men did to take captive or runaway Europeans as wives. This is why English women were not usually sexually assaulted.
Indian men prefer women of their own.
Most often, the Europeans sought relations with the Indians. Indians fascinated the Europeans with their nakedness and sexual behavior. Indians were typically seen as young, wild, passionate, and alluring in which some English succumbed to their aroused passions as early as 1631. In the Plymouth colony, where the English lived more closely with their Indian neighbors, the opportunity for cross-cultural unions was greater. During the seventy years of Plymouth's autonomy, several cases of fornification involving colonists and Indians appeared on the court docket, only one of which ever accused an Indian of attempting English virtue.