Learning Thai

I'm currently reading The Kingdom of the Yellow Robe, written in 1898 by Ernest Young, an Englishman living in Thailand. One of the subjects he covers is Thai marriage traditions. At that time men were allowed to have many wives (in some cases, they still are) while women were not permitted the same "privilege." One reason he gives for this is that "there is a remarkable difference in the several dispositions of men and women; men, however many wives they have, and whatever their feelings towards them, would never desire to kill them, but if women had more husbands than one, they would wish to put to death all except the one they liked best, for such is their nature."

-Tom