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woman is hankering or seeking after the association of a man, and a man is hankering or seeking for the association of a woman. All the fiction novels, dramas, cinema and even ordinary advertisements that you see simply depict the attachment between man and woman. Even in the tailor's shop you will find in the window some woman and some man.
pravṛttir eṣā bhūtānāṁ nivṛttis tu mahāphalām
So this attachment is already there.
BOB:  Attachment between man and woman?
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  Man and woman. So if you want to get liberation from this material world, then that attachment should be reduced to nil. Otherwise, simply further attachment—You will have to take rebirth, either as a human being or as a demigod or as an animal, as a serpent, as a bird, as a beast. You will have to take birth. So, this basic principle of increasing attachment is not our business, although it is the general tendency.  Gṛha, kṣetra, suta  [home, land, sons]. But if one can reduce and stop it, that is first class. Therefore our Vedic system is to first of all train a boy as a  brahmacāri —no sex life. The Vedic principle is to reduce attachment, not to increase it. Therefore the whole system is called  vaṃāśrama-dharma . The Indian system calls for  vaṃa  and  āśrama —four social orders and four spiritual orders.  Brahmacarya  [celibate student life],  gṛhastha  [married life],  vānaprastha  [retired life] and  sannyāsa  [renounced life]—these are the spiritual orders. And the social orders consist of  brāhmaṇas  [intellectuals],  kṣatriyas  [administrators],  vaiśyas  [merchants and farmers] and  śūdras  [ordinary workers]. So under this system, the regulative principles are so nice that