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Bromance رفیق فاب بازی, too much love or just enough?

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In his book, The Art of Loving, Erich Fromm defines “brotherly love” as an asexual feeling of care and attraction that exists between two people, and advocates that form of love as the prerequisite to any other form of love and as the basis of any relationship between any two persons. This, he claims, would allow for peace grow. In this show we are focusing on the type of bonding and quasi-loving relationships between two heterosexual male friends. Sometimes they’re called buddies, pals, bro’s, or other similar terms, but the fact is these two people are as close and as attached as brothers, but not blood related. As Iranian-Americans, many of us have seen a dichotomy in the way guys relate to each other in Iran and other cultures in the world where personal space and homophobia is not a big factor. For a guy who has grown up in Iran, hugging or even kissing a guy to greet or say goodbye is nothing out of the social norm. We have probably seen guys holding hand in Iran, although it becomes very infrequent after the teenage years! Listen as we delve into the topic and ask the 3 male co-hosts to share their experiences and stories of how their relation with closest male friends have formed and persisted.

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6 comments

  2. Mostafa jaan,

    Our podcasts usually become available the Friday after our show is aired on Radio Javan. But the post is there as soon as the show starts for our listeners to be able to comment on the blog!

    Thanks for checking :)

  3. This stupid heterosexual culture (which is too strict on physical contacts among guys) comes from christian culture and defiantly has religious roots. I love how Iranian guys are friendly with each other and they don’t see ‘body’ as a necessarily sexual object. I think we should appreciate our traditions instead of trying to impose our Amercian values on everything.

  4. Dear Iranican Crew,
    dametoon garm! I love litsening to your podcast, because the topics you guys bring up is just so funny and interesting! Im a big fan! Just keep up the good work!
    Movafagh bashin!

  5. agha , in ahang rap e arumi ke inja pakhsh mikonin chi bud?
    kheyli jalebe… makhsusan uni ke daghighe ye 30 hastesh.

    mamnun