It’s a testosterone thing. It goes along with unshaven, tattood, pierced, GQ, machismo.
GQ is no longer considered machismo. I canceled my ‘free’ subscription after they published an article about how loving and adventurous it is to be pegged. (Not a good thing, look it up in the urban dictionary) I was disgusted and didn’t want my children reading that. I have “The Art of Manliness” bookmarked right under Freerepublic and let the children read that now instead