No pints, no pulling: does the death of the pub spell the end of sex?

The decline of the British boozer is coinciding with another downturn: young people are having less sex. But is the loss of the local really calling time on romance?

The writer Emily Hill is reminiscing about happy times at The Rose pub near Snowsfields in south London 10 years ago. The smoking ban came into force in July 2007, and this ushered in an era of under-the-radar revelry, when late nights were alight with the glimmer of romantic opportunity.

“You’d get to the end of the night and, instead of going home, they’d lock the doors and everybody would get their cigarettes out,” says Hill, 35. “That was when the romance really happened.”

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2TPsHAN