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Re: How do guys feel about touchy-feely fictional guys?

[herpymcderp]

Depends on how it's done? There's definitely a lot of touching that goes on in my different and various male friend groups, and it depends on the context and the company as to how believable I'll find it in fiction.

I'll see a lot more hugging and intimate cuddling from my queer friends, as a lot of people might expect, but it doesn't happen all that often. My nerdy friends almost never get physical with each other at all, to the point of awkwardness if someone accidentally does touch someone else. With new acquaintances (and therefore default assumption of hetero) in general a shoulder or a back pat is a pretty casual greeting that I get/give pretty often, and hugging isn't a thing that never happens. What's interesting is that the more sport-oriented friends I have are the ones that are the most touchy-feely/physical, but they also tend to touch in the least intimate way possible; back pats, head rubs, shoving, play fighting etc.

So yeah, it depends? If there's something like excessive shoulder rubbing or someone is trying to hold hands with someone else or touch someone else in a way that seems ...I dunno, off?... to me, then I stop seeing them as theoretical real people and start seeing them as self-insert fantasy though.

I also have to say that it depends on the culture they're supposed to be from as well, because it wouldn't be out of place even for Japanese teenagers to kiss each other on the cheek and cuddle and hold hands. I saw plenty of that while I was living there.