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I don't have a problem with it. I don't see my best friend very often... when I do, we often hug/handshake, kind of at the same time. In MANY cultures (maybe most), there's nothing wrong with men hugging. Much of Europe sees it as a common thing. Hell, in a lot of countries men holding hands is not abnormal or homosexually erotic.
As for "hang ups of old", they're really rather new hang ups. Like decades old at the most. In the 60s and 70s, obviously this wasn't a problem. In the 40s and 50s it may have been slightly less common, but even looking at old Hollywood movies and such, it wasn't that odd back in the 20s and 30s even. Before that, we were more like Europeans, less homophobic and more open to people in general. We being those cultures who seem to have such issues today.
As for the femininity of hugging... that's a general response regarding emotions. I do believe, and please correct me if I'm wrong, that languages which express gender onto nouns generally express a female gender on affections. Even the ancients put goddesses in domain of love and affection, and men in domain of war. I think it's part of the human psyche in many ways, and also likely directed by biochemical makeup, especially in hormones that humans express themselves that way, and less due to culture like some suggest. Probably a mixture of both... *shrug*
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