Economics trumps religion in adjusting social mores
This week, the Economist published an article about the rapid decline of clubbing in the UK . It seems that young men and women who frequented these establishments in the recent past can no longer afford to go out for a night of drinking and debauchery. Revenues in the country’s night club industry have declined a half billion dollars since 2007. Just in front of that article however, was another pointing out that “young Britons have turned responsible.” Drug use has remained steady for people older than 25, but has declined from 21 percent to 11 percent since 1998, coinciding with the economic decline. Young men and women are even engaging in the concept of traditional marriage and foregoing more promiscuous lifestyles. So what has this got to do with the state of the media? Well, one of the industrial outgrowths of Britain’s wild and wooly times has been an explosion of (cough) men’s (clear throat) magazines and websites....