54. But in hell there are no marriages, though there are adulteries. In the hellish societies there the men are separated from the women, and when they think that they will speak with their wife, according to their custom adopted in the world, they go across to the women; and then he is given the false belief that this or that is his woman, with whom he then consorts. This belief is not constant, but this does not matter, because in hell marriage does not exist, only adultery.