Friendship is one of life’s simplest pleasures. While it’s easy to take friendships for granted, the variety of people in your corner often defines how balanced, supported, and joyful your life feels.

Men’s loneliness isn’t natural—it’s learned. A forgotten history of platonic male touch reveals how cultural shifts over the last 150 years trained men to fear affection and closeness.

I’d be hard pressed to name a male friend of mine that I did not meet because of some sort of event. For most men, friendships are made when we’re doing something. We tend to need that framework in ...

It's not just societal pressures that keep men from finding companionship. According to a Newport Institute study on male friendships, a large percentage of straight cis-gender men struggle to ...