Man on Man Action

I can’t say if it’s a large or small irony that men here in India display physical affection towards each other. In a country largely uncomfortable with homosexuality, you have to admit that it is pretty funny to see two guys who most likely find homosexuals disgusting holding hands. In the short time I’ve been here it’s been something else to see men walking down the streets hand in hand and arm in arm. I’ve seen guys posing on their sides at the beach watching while their friends rough-house in the surf. I remember in my research before I left, I read that it is considered totally normal for straight men to pat each other on the inner thigh after hearing a good joke. Now, I’m not saying that there’s anything wrong with intimacy, I understand that a bromance is a good thing, but wow. What a difference in customs. All I can say is that as a guy who’s grown up in the Bay Area, if I didn’t know otherwise, I’d be making some very incorrect assumptions.