[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915) › v2.c19.34 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c19.34 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c19.34 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c19.34](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19.34) ² True jealousy is foreign to the primitive woman, at least as a rule. The wife of the proud owner of many wives is often as proud of this mark of the power and influence of her lord as is the wife of the rich upstart of his money-bags, and with not less reason. Indeed, the wife is often even angered, if her skinflint husband does not find her a new help for the household. Envy, indeed, is inseparable from woman, and Jean Paul therefore holds that all women should really go to hell, since there they could have so splendid a chance of showing their fairest and strongest virtue—sympathy, whereas in heaven at the sight of all the glories, particularly of their sisters, envy would almost kill them (in \*Quintus Fixlein\*, first edit. of the collected works, vol. 4, p. 118 f.). The husband with many wives has therefore even among savages his troubles at home, because each of his wives is always watching him to see whether the other is not getting something she her- - [Previous: v2.c19.33](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19.33) - [Next: v2.c19.35](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19.35) - [Up: v2.c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19.34](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19.34) · Pramāṇa