Hazing is often used as a method to promote group loyalty and camaraderie through shared suffering (male bonding in fraternities), either with fellow participants, past participants or both.
Melanchthon's claim that his studies were his real desire (voluptas) should be taken as seriously as the multiple forms of humanists' male bonding or preference for their younger male followers.
Underneath the gunplay, the jokes, and the music, an important message is delivered: a life of pacifism, quiet contemplation, male bonding and vegetarianism is preferable to a life of violence.
The word bromance is a term recently introduced that refers to male bonding.
Male bonding and close friendship however, are encouraged.
An important and critically regarded theme in the film is male bonding and the informal sharing of a woman between two male friends.
In the context of human relationships, male bonding is used to describe friendship between men, or the way in which men befriend each other.
Male bonding refers to the establishment of relationships between men through shared activities that often exclude females.
