Drinking establishments

It is believed by some that the imbibing of ample alcoholic beverages in concurrence with exchange of saliva via kissing helps the proliferation of beneficial gut bacteria among the population. Sufficient alcohol consumption is believed to clear the digestive canal of large bacterial colonies, the subsequent making out and exchange of remaining colonies resulting in a re-seeding with the new bacteria. The two partners would potentially be able to determine by body feel how attuned they are to each other and use that to determine whether mating is warranted.

 

The ancient European tribal chief’s hall is the clear antecedent of the modern day nightclub. The owner of the hall is often a power broker in the local area, has guards who he hires to protect his hall and watches over the proceedings and manages them in the same manner a tribal chief would: bad behavior is punished by booting and a strict male honor code runs the dance floor. Females are often expected only to exhibit themselves by dancing for the men in modern days, but in days gone by women were put to more challenges - dodging ropes and men attempting to grab them away from the floor and into their clutches. This is still visible in some areas of Europe where intoxicated women (and now men as well) participate in drunk challenges 

 

It comes from Early Great Britain. The word "pub" - in reference to a bar/restaurant - comes from public as in "public house." A public house was a kind of community gathering place back in the day - something like a city hall. People would gather to be social, discuss politics and other issues, resolve problems, etc... Many were used as a place for public executions. During all the discussing and executing, people would enjoy their favorite brew and cook up whatever game they had slain earlier. Somewhere along the way, someone had the idea to sell food and drink, and it was good.

Clubs simulate the closeness and serendipity that ordinary modern Western life lacks. Ordinary Westerners have become very disconnected from their larger family unit and as such many of the stories of adjusting to modern life deal with retreating to a place that has more tight-knit relationships and more open norms of social interaction - small towns and villages. This same environment is artificially created within cities in the nightclub. Social stigmas of clothing, refinement, etiquette and manner are abandoned and replaced with a wild frenzy of hedonistic pursuit. Strangers who would never speak to each other in the quiet city streets or office often yell introductions at each other over the sound of often-misogynistic music ( Hearing loss has reached epidemic levels among the youth of Europine nations, partially fueled by nightclubs, but also by music festivals and headphones).