476. (xii) So long as a man has a concubine of this kind, sexual relations with his wife are unlawful.
The reason is that conjugial love, which is in itself spiritual, chaste, pure and holy, then becomes natural, being so polluted and enfeebled that it dies off. In order to preserve this love it is important that for genuinely weighty reasons (see 473-3) only one concubine is taken, and not two at once.
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