Prabhupāda: Drinking, meat-eating . . . and it became a fashion among the richer class to keep prostitutes, go to the garden weekend with prostitutes and wine, freely use them, intoxicated. It was a prestigious position to keep a prostitute. A rich man having a garden and one prostitute—famous. Anything in demand . . . I have seen it. Now I think, "How things are going on, that . . ." You have seen that Mullik's house?
Girirāja: Yes.
Prabhupāda: Thakur Mullik, Rādhārāṇī. So in their festival some dancing girl would come, baiji. That was aristocratic, to call a prostitute and dance. So at that time we were children, five, six, seven years old. So persons who were of our father's age, they would sit down round the prostitute exactly like the street dog surrounds one female dog. Exactly. They had no shame even. This was aristocratic. And talking all nonsense, and if the prostitute smiles, they become very much obliged: (laughing) "She is smiling." (laughter) And amongst our mother's friends, they were talking, "My husband has kept that prostitute." And another lady . . . we were at that time boys, three, four years, but I remember all these things. Another lady, "My husband has kept that . . ."
Girirāja: They were proud.