Interesting thoughts. It's certainly true that male intimacy has become verboten to many males. Even the handshake seems to have evolved to bumping fists, as if holding another man's hand briefly is somehow a threat to masculinity. Sometimes I feel slightly uncomfortable when another male puts his hand on my shoulder, but at the same time it feels good. When I was much younger putting your arm around the shoulders of a friend was common, as was hugging a friend not seen in a while.

"We have to go beyond the studies" = "Now I am going to start making stuff up." This article was fine for the first paragraph. The rest of it was pretty silly.

I in my mid-forties an always hug my male friends when I have not seen them for a while. We were teammates together, and were so close, the idea of not hugging or feeling awkward about it never even occurred to me and, I assume, them. I am straight, as are they, but the idea of homophobia is as strange to me as, I guess, homosexuality is to people who are anti-Gay. It is so strange to me that whenever I meet or see on TV someone who is strongly ant-gay, I immediately assume they could easily be self-hating homosexuals. This article hints at this feeling I have had for years that behind all hate, esp, this one, is fear. The reason this particularly kind is so unseemly is that the fear is of the self.