I'm with Anna. Indeed, if anything, "more sexual outlets other than one's partner" has gotten a lot less bleak than it once was. I suspect the primary, close to sole way this happened in the past was through cheating and doing things behind the partner's back. Nowadays, there are many more such outlets and many of them involve either the consent of one's partner or not promising monogamy in the first place. And I suspect, as well, that this is a good development on balance from a feminist perspective. In patriarchal societies, only women are really punished for cheating anyway. A society where most of the time, neither gender gets sanctioned for finding additional sexual outlets is a real advance.

No way. Obama has already announced he is going to "compromise" with the GOP on tax cuts. And even before he did that, we knew he always favored the fiscally irresponsible $3 trillion middle class Bush tax cut. With the "compromise", it's up to $3.7 trillion over ten years. So thanks to the awful leaders we have on both sides of the aisle, and the incoherent voting public, we are looking at deep debt as far as the eye can see.