The Sexual Life of Our Time in Its Relations to Modern Civilization: Translated from the Sixth German EditionBloch, Iwan
Philosophy
The Sexual Life of Our Time in Its Relations to Modern Civilization: Translated from the Sixth German Edition
Bloch, Iwan
Sex; Sexual ethics
30. =Happy marriage.= Both parties immoral, dissolute; the wife
carries on secret prostitution with the knowledge of the husband, who
on his side keeps several mistresses. They take matters
philosophically!
31. The husband a libertine and seducer by profession, the wife
separated from him.
32. Happy marriage. The husband inclined to gallantry, without being
absolutely dissolute. Wife gentle, patient, fond of her husband, and
faithful.
33. The husband ill as the result of dissipation, the wife frivolous.
Indifferent marriage.
34. The husband made happy by means of his wife’s money, but neglects
her; she is very ill, wasting away. Childless marriage.
35. Husband impotent. Wife, with knowledge of her husband, on intimate
terms with a friend of the family. In its way a happy marriage.
36. Dissolute husband, dissolute wife, both shameless and
=free-thinking=--in mutual indifference they =seem= fairly happy.
37. Husband old and sickly, a worn-out libertine. The wife on intimate
terms with a friend of the house. =Happy marriage!=
38. Unhappy marriage. Husband phlegmatic, wife extremely passionate
and voluptuous.
39. Unhappy marriage. A worthless speculator who led astray the wife
of a wealthy man and then deserted her. Childless.
40. Husband debilitated by excesses; wife immoral. =Happy marriage!=
41. Husband debilitated by excesses; wife patient. =Happy marriage!=
42. A similar state of affairs.
43. Happy marriage. Both parties still very young, untried.
44. Happy marriage. Husband phlegmatic--wife faithful.
45. Husband debilitated by excesses, wife rich. At the moment, a happy
marriage.
Professional and Trading Classes.
46. Happy marriage. The husband phlegmatic and =seldom= unfaithful;
wife forbearing, good, and faithful.
47. Happy marriage. Both parties rich and young. Husband, without his
wife’s knowledge, loves the joys of Venus.
48. Unhappy marriage. An enforced marriage of prudence. The husband
lives with a concubine, wife separated from him.
49. Unhappy marriage. Poverty, jealousy, and childlessness.
50. Happy marriage, owing to the forbearance and consideration of the
wife towards the sullen, irascible husband.
51. Unhappy marriage. Husband lives happily with a concubine, the wife
unhappily with a false friend.
52. Unhappy marriage. Phlegmatic husband, immoral wife, continuous
quarrelling.
53. Unhappy marriage. The husband henpecked, impotent. The wife
masterful, quarrelsome, and ill-tempered.
54. Husband and wife have separated.
55. Happy marriage. The husband is good-humoured and deceived; the
wife a sensual libertine; children sickly; wife incurably ill.
56. Happy marriage. The husband a worn-out debauchee, the wife a
worn-out prostitute. Both incurably ill, for the same reason.
57. Happy marriage, happy from necessity and phlegm.
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