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
58. Happy marriage. The husband, a swindler, does everything possible
for those dependent on him. The wife, formerly a prostitute, is happy
in consequence of his care.
59. A happy, artistic marriage. Happy on account of mutual laxity and
accommodation.
60. Similar circumstances.
61. Happy marriage. The husband conceals his diversions with success.
Wife faithful and always gentle.
62. Unhappy marriage. Light conduct on both sides, with usual results.
63. Happy marriage. The conjugal fidelity of the husband not above
suspicion.
64. }
} Similar circumstances.
65. }
66. Unhappy marriage. A marriage of prudence. The husband set himself
up with his wife’s money, but spends it on light women; the wife
revenges herself by boundless ill-temper.
67. Unhappy marriage. Marriage of prudence. The young husband settled
in business on the money of his elderly wife; she nags, and he is
drinking himself to death.
68. Marriage happy owing to =avarice= on both sides.
69. Marriage compulsorily happy owing to =poverty= on both sides.
70. Happy marriage! Husband a drunkard. Wife avaricious. Childless.
71. Husband and wife are separated; the husband abandoned his wife to
poverty and prostitution.
72. Unhappy marriage. Husband impotent, wife lustful. Continued
unhappiness.
73. Young married pair; wife mistress of a wealthy Jew, who supports
the family.
74. Unhappy marriage. Husband dissolute, no longer cares for his wife;
the latter incurably ill; children syphilitic.
75. Unhappy marriage. Both parties sickly and poor.
76. A marriage of speculation. Husband has sold his wife three times
to different wealthy men; in this way he makes his living.
77. Immoral marriage. The husband lives by a swindling industry. The
wife lives on a pension given by one whose mistress she formerly
was--children brought up to prostitution.
78. Easy-going marriage. Husband formerly a domestic servant, now in
business; wife formerly a prostitute who had saved money. Childless.
79. Happy marriage, between a fool and a clever woman.
80. Unhappy marriage. The husband dislikes his wife, is plagued to
death by her; she brought the property into the house.
81. Dissipated husband, dissipated wife, separated from one another.
The children scrofulous.
82. Impotent husband, licentious wife, sickly children; angry and
stormy scenes.
83. Worn-out libertine, young wife; the parties are not unhappy, owing
to affluence and freedom from cares.
84. Artistic marriage. Wife the mistress of a great man. The household
goes on comfortably.
Lower Classes.
85. Dissolute husband. Formerly well-to-do, owing to his wife’s dowry,
now reduced with her to beggary. Living by a trifling commission
business. Wife sickly. Children dead.
86. Marriage happy, in consequence of great poverty.
87. A procurer’s family.
88. =Happy marriage.= Husband a thief, wife a prostitute.
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