If a man swore on his own Bible that he refrained from coveting his neighbor’s wife because the code forbade it, I would suspect either self-deception or subnormal sexuality. Any male virile enough to sire a child has coveted many women, whether he acts or not. “Now comes Mike and says: ‘There is no need to covet my wife . . . love her! There’s no limit to her love, we have everything to gain—and nothing to lose but fear and guilt and hatred and jealousy.’
