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Contents:

• GAY MEN HUGGG STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• YOUNG GAY MEN STOCK VIOS
• 2,972 GAY GUYS HUGGG STOCK VIOS, 4K FOOTAGE, & VIO CLIPS

GAY MEN HUGGG STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG

Soclogists like Ibson intify the pathologizg of sexualy durg the begng of the twentieth century—the suggtn that huggg and kissg other men didn’t jt note a specific sexual inty, but that homosexualy was some sort of dysfunctn—as the spark that drove tradnal Amerin bro-dom to an artificial Mark Greene dubbed the cle of male ntact photographs and media throughout the twentieth century “touch isolatn, ” a homophobic reactn to du-on-du timacy that evolved alongsi the straight-laced culture of the 1950s that has robbed men of healthy physil teractn wh other men. Women are enuraged to hug and olic like they're a Taylor Swift vio, but accintally snag your bt bud’s hand while reachg for the check and bam: You might be gay, buddy boy—or, worse, a mie. John IbsonIt was the social nservatism of the 1950s that helped nflate healthy male timacy wh homosexualy durg the postwar anti-munist fervor.

“It’s don’t jt show up photographs, but letters and whatnot—there’s a great al more fort and ls of a ncern over the implitns of male physil affectn until historil thgs like McCarthy’s nflatn of munism wh queerns forced Amerins to live unr a shadow of homosexual panic.

”Even wh the rise of the ee-love hippie unterculture of the 1960s and ’70s and rultg liberalizatn of Amerin sexual attus over the past few generatns, that same gay paranoia still persists ep the heart of the male psyche.

YOUNG GAY MEN STOCK VIOS

Bros high-five, hug, and slap butts after a touchdown or other more emotnally charged moments all the time (rearch suggts that all-du boozefts are prime grounds for “exploratn”), but prolonged physil ntact holds the risk of steppg over that visible le between straight and gay—or jt pla male touch isn’t jt sential for childhood velopment, ntribut to our overall emotnal well-beg as morn men. So spe the social anxiety around homosexualy that’s still prevalent, we’ve adapted to prerve this sential homosocial bondg.

“We have bro hugs and fist bumps and all kds of ways that we try to appear closer to men whout appearg to be gay, ” explas Michael Kimmel, thor of Guyland, who suggts that the rise of the sports bar, the bastn of bro-dom on par wh the at ho, mirrors the rise of touch isolatn that acpanied the visibily of gay men morn society.

2,972 GAY GUYS HUGGG STOCK VIOS, 4K FOOTAGE, & VIO CLIPS

As homophobia creas, McCormack says, straight men are actg “much softer” than those om olr generatns -- somethg he and Eric Anrson, of the Universy of Wchter, set out to exame.

"How do men ga om rejectg the homophobia of prev generatns?

We have a bromance where we are very fortable around each history of homosocial relatnships, or heterosexual male iendships, is eply plex and steeped social stigmas, myth, rejectn and aggrsn, the thors expla their rearch. “The social taboo agast cuddlg has been bee for two men to get close was tradnally seen as 'gay'. Men wanted to avoid beg the target of homophobic abe, so they would be macho to distance themselv om any perceptn of homosexualy, ” McCormack told HuffPost.