Geoffrey Greif

Surprising to me that more people don't take an interest in empirical work in the social science that can have practical bearing on the things that matter most to us: sex, friendship, money, love, and so on. This is a very good analysis of interviews with hundreds of men on the topic of their friendships. Particularly like that it dwells on a peculiar fact about modern Western male-male friendship, viz. that it's haunted by the prospect of stigmatized male-male sexual affection, and so vexed in a way that male-female and female-female friendships aren't.… (mer)