[Chickensoup]

Interesting. The author does not understand that because of the anti-homosexual stance of the culture, men are free to be intimate in other, friendship sorts of ways that have often been parts of being male in many western cultures.

[livius]

Exactly. If people know that their friendship is not going to get mixed up in sex, they’re free to be friends. A sexual relationship is complicated, but friendship is not. This sexualization of everything has deprived us of friendship.

[thecodont]

Interesting. The author does not understand that because of the anti-homosexual stance of the culture, men are free to be intimate in other, friendship sorts of ways that have often been parts of being male in many western cultures.

And the men who lack such intimacy are much poorer for it.