"The code says, 'Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife' - and the result?  Reluctant chastity, adultery, jealousy, bitter family fights, blows and sometimes murder, broken homes and twisted children... and furtive, dirty little passes at country club dances and the like, degrading to both man and woman whether consummated or not, Is this injunction ever obeyed?  The Commandment not to 'covet' I mean; I'm not referring to any physical act.  I wonder.  If a man swore to me on a stack of his own Bibles that he had refrained from coveting another man's wife because the code forbade it, I would suspect either self-deception or subnormal sexuality.  Any male virile enough to sire a child is almost certainly so virile that he has coveted many, many women - whether he takes action in the matter or not.