369. (8) Jealousness is spiritual in character in monogamists, and natural in character in polygamists. Jealousness is spiritual in character in monogamists, because they alone are capable of receiving a spiritual conjugial love, as we have abundantly shown previously. We say that it is spiritual, but we mean that it can be. A spiritual jealousness is not found except among a very few in the Christian world, where marriages are monogamous; but still it is possible there, as we have also established previously. As for conjugial love among polygamists, it may be seen in the chapter on polygamy, nos. 345, 347, that it is natural in character. So, too, then, their jealousness, because it accords with the love. [2] What the jealousness of polygamists is like is known from eyewitness accounts of it among orientals. According to these accounts, their wives and concubines are guarded like captives in workhouses, and they are kept away and cut off from any communication with men. No man is allowed to enter their harems or the apartments where they keep their women, unless accompanied by a eunuch. Moreover, they watch closely to see if any of the women regards some passerby with a lustful eye or look; and if they observe it, the woman is beaten or whipped as punishment. And if she behaves wantonly with some man slipped into the courtyard by stealth, or outside it, she is punished with death.