Apparently the men in Norway and Sweden are very friendly with each other and always hug and kiss each other in greeting if they know you really well. So I guess male/male affection does indeed vary from culture to culture and indeed country to country. In Australia where homophobia is still quite prominent in some areas it is quite uncommon to see two men holding hands or hugging or even kissing each other on the cheek or mouth in greeting each other.
I think what makes it more of a sad thing for me is that I love affection and hugging and hate how down trodden it is here and that you cannot even look at a guy for more than two seconds without it being deemed bad and getting yelled homophobic abuse at when you are not thinking any gay thoughts about the guy in the first place. Some men have become so fearful of being labelled gay that they have simply become animals.
I think what makes it more of a sad thing for me is that I love affection and hugging and hate how down trodden it is here and that you cannot even look at a guy for more than two seconds without it being deemed bad and getting yelled homophobic abuse at when you are not thinking any gay thoughts about the guy in the first place. Some men have become so fearful of being labelled gay that they have simply become animals.