{"id":9567,"date":"2015-03-30T09:54:43","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T13:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=9567"},"modified":"2015-03-30T09:54:43","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T13:54:43","slug":"where-do-men-still-cuddle-vlad-chituc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2015\/03\/where-do-men-still-cuddle-vlad-chituc.html","title":{"rendered":"Where Do Men Still Cuddle?: Vlad Chituc"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2026If it weren\u2019t so threatening to seem gay, there wouldn\u2019t be a need to police the appearance of it so firmly. Culture has been giving us a choice since the latter half of the 20<sup>th<\/sup> Century: seem gay or be lonely. That so many chose \u201cbe lonely\u201d shows only the depth of our collective gay panic.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not just speculating, as [Anthony] Esolen does. This is at heart an empirical question\u2014in what conditions is platonic male affection common and in what cases is it restricted? One way to go about answering it is to explore groups of men where homosexuality is destigmatized. Do we see less emotional and physical intimacy, as Esolen might predict, or more?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2015\/03\/28\/why-does-america-hate-cuddly-bromances.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>writes: \u2026If it weren\u2019t so threatening to seem gay, there wouldn\u2019t be a need to police the appearance of it so firmly. Culture has been giving us a choice since the latter half of the 20th Century: seem gay or be lonely. That so many chose \u201cbe lonely\u201d shows only the depth of our collective [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[88,56,32],"class_list":["post-9567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-as-antony-said-to-cleopatra","tag-friendship","tag-gayer-than-a-picnic-basket"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Where Do Men Still Cuddle?: Vlad Chituc<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"writes: ...If it weren\u2019t so threatening to seem gay, there wouldn\u2019t be a need to police the appearance of it so firmly. 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