With lads’ mags Nuts and Front publishing their final issues in April 2014, The Sun’s Page 3 under fire, and even the relatively more sophisticated idea of metrosexual man now an assumed norm, does the 'lad' still exist? If so, where can he be found? And is it worth trying?

In a world of blurring gender roles, where women are empowered and men are emasculated, a playful definition of 'what it means to be a man' is emerging, whereby men have the freedom to build their own definition from a range of discourses.

Dr Mark McCormack undertook ethnographies of three groups of male sixth form students in the south of England, developing a picture of the role that masculinity and sexuality play in their day-to-day existence.

Gender roles are a regular topic of debate in the media, particularly concerning the way certain products are marketed gender-specifically. A 15-year old YouTuber has won the hearts of many Gen Z Tumblr and Twitter users with his video ‘Little Game’, which tackles the same issues.