The new permissiveness affects city-dwellers more than country people, the rich more than the poor.

ECONOMIST: From Calvinism to cruising

Canada passed a law in June that sets a new standard of permissiveness.

ECONOMIST: New copyright rules for the digital age

Back at the BBFC, there have been glimpses of more permissiveness in what it's willing to license for mainstream distribution.

BBC: Peep show

Not all attempts to cash in on South Africa's new permissiveness succeed.

ECONOMIST: From Calvinism to cruising

English has always been a ragbag, and that encouraged further permissiveness.

NEWYORKER: The English Wars

To what extent, Tony Campolo, does American culture, its permissiveness, its lack of humility, its abrasiveness and its almost imperial march feed into the problem in the world today?

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Gaffney debates on Hugh Hewitt show

The federal Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission in concluded in its final report two years ago that the 2007-2008 market upheaval, followed by national recession, came from a decade of "pervasive permissiveness" by regulators with expanding debt and high-risk behavior by home buyers and owners, mortgage lenders, investors and financial institutions that repackaged and resold that debt.

WSJ: NY attorney general looks at ratings agencies