We celebrated our honeymoon in a country where gays can get jailed for up to 3yrs. Yet, we safely interlocked pinky fingers in public because in Islamic states, male friendships often express through physicality to the point of casually massaging each other in hammams.
In , can we say the same? When do men heal one another? M2m touch is awkward cause we confuse homosociality with homosexual identity. The fear of being mis-identified as gay withholds too many men to form physical friendships.