“Blood-brotherhood is one recurring cultural solution to the problem of recognizing powerful emotional bonds between men that avoids effeminizing comparisons to romantic courtship and affirms the masculinity of the men involved.”

—  Jack Donovan

Blood-Brotherhood and Other Rites of Male Alliance (2009).
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