The neglected correct wives are now the only uncalculating lovers

Evidence

The only women still able to indulge in anything resembling uncalculating love are now these very ladies whose husbands once forsook them for the tiles. While they remain as tedious to their husbands, through the latters’ fault, as their mothers were, they can at least bestow on others what they are otherwise denied by all. — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 28

Categorization

Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims

• XREF: Echoes the reader’s earlier material on how liberalism and rationalization invert erotic value roles — here the wife occupies the position of the mistress.