Monogamous marriage structurally produces the cuckold and the lover as social types

Evidence

With monogamous marriage, two constant social types, unknown hitherto, make their appearance on the scene—the wife’s attendant lover and the cuckold husband … Together with monogamous marriage and hetaerism, adultery became an unavoidable social institution—denounced, severely penalised, but impossible to suppress. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1620

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines hetaerism and identifies adultery’s structural inevitability as a social institution rather than a personal failing.
• XREF: Echoes the Addendum-style argument that prohibits create the very institution they denounce; resonates with the earlier chapters on the married woman’s situation. — connects to: The institutionalization of monogamous bourgeois marriage created the demand for prostitution — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 214; Marriage’s frustrated eroticism causally drives wives into adultery — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1617; Sharing a beloved superordinate turns co-subjects into intensified mutual enemies via jealousy — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 337 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Marriage’s frustrated eroticism causally drives wives into adultery #expands (0.82) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1617
• Sharing a beloved superordinate turns co-subjects into intensified mutual enemies via jealousy #expands (0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 337
• Authentic love requires reciprocal recognition of both partners’ freedoms #qualifies (0.75) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1883