There are many reasons for an absence of jealousy or for it ceasing to exist. In particular jealousy is unknown to those who rate conjugial love no higher than scortatory love, and at the same time have no pride, reckoning their reputation as worthless. These are not very different from pimps with wives. Jealousy is also absent in the case of those who have rejected it out of a conviction that it damages the disposition, and it is useless to keep a wife under control, and if she is kept under control, this encourages her; so that it is preferable to keep one's eyes shut, and not even to peep through the key-hole in a door, in case visual proof is disclosed.

Some people have rejected jealousy because of the stigma its name carries, thinking that a man who is a man should fear nothing. Some have been driven to reject it, for fear of ruining their households, or of incurring abuse outside the house, if the wife is convicted of the lust of which she is guilty. Moreover, jealousy is reduced to zero in the case of those who allow their wives licence because of loss of potency, or for the sake of having children so as to leave heirs, in some cases also for profit, and so on. There are also scortatory marriages, in which the couple mutually agree to allow the other to indulge in making love, while they still put a civil face on their conduct when they meet.