Testosterone makes the boys more cuddly? Explains a lot.
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What testosterone really does is when your status is being challenged, testosterone makes you do whatever you need to do to maintain status. You can have an economic game where people get status by making generous offers and give people testosterone and they become more generous in the game. In other words, if you shot up a whole bunch of Buddhist monks with testosterone, they would run amok doing random acts of kindness all over the place.
I can think of one male friend who prefers handshakes, but the rest, we all hug at each greeting and parting and regularly tell each other we love one another.
We don't really cuddle all that often though.
Welcome to Gerbil Orgy. We just begin cuddle puddle. You will join?
Then why is there an odd number of gerbils?
Because you are bad at counting. There's one more at the very end, behind the branch. You can only see an eye and an ear.
I get it, I too am filled with immense rage and could use a hug, it checks out!
Pair-bonded? This is just what we in the field of Gender Studies call homosocial.
Just in Case
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I envy these creatures, they get to cuddle all the time, and not worry about someone overthinking it.

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