Until the 20th century, concubines ensured that a male heir was born, but that practice died with the advent of modern social mores in Japan.

It is a comment and part celebration of a particular strand of modern sexual mores.

Its sardonic attitude toward modern mores proved popular in a decade that saw students challenge many established institutions.

In a part of the world where modern mores often collide with ancient traditions, women themselves are sometimes divided over what constitutes progress.

Most scientists simply assume that modern human sexual mores are the default starting point, and they reason backwards.

It may be that the case is out of line with modern mores.

A Palestinian Arab, rejected by her own son for her modern mores.

Children generally have been infantilised by modern mores.

And his borrowings don't even suggest an interventionist cinephilia that uses such classics as a touchstone on which to test modern mores.