376. 11. Some people do not have any jealousness in them, also for a variety of reasons. There are a number of reasons for jealousness being non-existent and for jealousness ceasing.
Jealousness is non-existent especially in people who make conjugial love of no more account than licentious love, and who are at the same time without honor, placing no value in their reputation and name. They are not unlike married pimps.
Jealousness is non-existent also in those who have rejected it out of a conviction that it only torments the mind, that it is useless to stand guard over a wife, that to stand guard over her simply goads her on, and that it is better therefore to close one's eyes and not even peek through the keyhole in the door lest something be visibly detected. Others have rejected jealousness because of the stigma attached to the attribution of jealousness, thinking that a man who is a man feels no fear. Still others have been compelled to reject it to keep their domestic affairs from being ruined, and to avoid becoming the subject of public reproach if they were to accuse their wives of the wantonness they are guilty of.
In addition, jealousness becomes gradually non-existent in men who grant their wives license to have lovers because of a failure of their own virility, in order to have children to become their heirs; in some cases, too, for the sake of gain; and so on.
There are also licentious marriages, in which by mutual consent they are both granted license to have affairs, and who yet maintain a civil countenance when they encounter each other.
