My first time to Zimbabwe, traveling on a humanitarian mission, I had the leader of one of the bush villages hold my hand as we walked around and he introduced me to everyone. It was sort of uncomfortable at first but then I realized that a lot of men there hold hands with each other. In Morocco the men would play soccer on the beach and then lounge around on blankets afterward and smoke cigarettes. They would lay their head on each other's chests or put their arms on each other. Not that any of that is considered cuddling but it does illustrate how man on man contact is a cultural thing.
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