Niagara became notorious for drinking, brawling, whoring, and cheating. Sheppard threw himself into a hedonistic whirl of drinking and whoring. Levan was, in the words of the Georgian chronicles, "a lover of whoring and fornication". Ohara leads a peasant movement advocating the abstention from gambling, drinking, and whoring. But having a steady income only allows Studs to pursue drinking and whoring more recklessly. He will go whoring three days long; the carousal will be dear to him. Jimmy replies, "Whoring is a peacetime activity".