When we are kids, hugs are everywhere. Becoming a teenage boy means something inside us gets shut off or shut down. We harden, hold back, and change the ways we might want to behave. We trade expression for repression. Physical contact becomes acceptable only through sport or aggression. And while the spectrum of perceived “acceptable” physical contact between boys is changing, when I was a kid, there was no spectrum. Things are changing though... slowly. Read the original article here: https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/handshakes-and-hugs-cmtt/