a sign of unpardonable weakness, of degeneracy. Our ideas on the
subject have changed a bit. A husband is no longer considered any more
dishonored--in some strata of society at least--because his wife
sinned than a wife is considered dishonored because her husband
sinned; and adultery in the wife is now, by most rational people,
considered only different in degree, but not in kind, from adultery in
the husband. These humane ideas have gained vogue only within a
comparatively very recent period; but their effect has already
manifested itself in a great number of instances. Forgiving the erring
wife is becoming quite common. A number of cases have reached the
newspapers. Recently a wife was implicated in a nasty scrape; her sin
was not only unquestionable, but notorious; it was public property.
And nevertheless the husband stood by her and took her back into his
home and arms. And the number of such cases which do not reach the
newspapers is very, very much larger than the public has any
conception of, larger than it would be safe to estimate. And in a
large percentage of these cases the husband begins to treat his wife
with more love, more consideration, and the tie between them becomes
more firm, more permanent.

CHAPTER FIFTY-TWO

REMEDIES FOR JEALOUSY

Prevention and Cure--Prophylaxis of Jealousy--Fitting Remedy to
Circumstances--The Neglectful and Flirtatious Husband--No
Question of Love--Advice to the wife of the Flirtatious Man--An
Efficient Though Vulgar Remedy--Jealousy Must Be Experienced to
Be Understood--Necessity for Freedom of Association--Lines of
Conduct for the Wife--Contempt for a Certain Type of Wife and
Husband--The Abandoned Lover--The Effects of Unrequited
Love--Sublimated Sexual Desire--Replacing Unrequited Love--The
Attitude of Goethe--Simultaneous Loves Possible--Successive Loves
Possible--Eternal Loves--When Sex Relationships May Be
Beneficial--Purchasable Sex Relations and Their Value--The Broken
Engagement--The Terrible Effects on the Young Man--The Young
Streetwalker--Sex Relations with Fiance--Inundating Sense of
Shame--Collapse--Attempts at Suicide--An Active Sex Life--The
Results--The Prevention of Jealousy.

We are all agreed that prevention is more important than cure. But
when a patient comes with a fully developed disease it is futile to
speak to him of prevention. It is too late to sermonize. What he wants
and what he needs is a cure, if such