Not long ago, the Inklings society at Brown University invited me to give a talk on Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. I decided to speak on the topic of “bromance,” an emotionally and physically ...

Physical Intimacy As I mentioned earlier, psychologists deem physical intimacy a crucial feature of bromance. The 2015 study, for instance, found that 37 out of 40 of its subjects (heterosexual male ...