I ran across this article today, which I was ready to dismiss out of hand, but it echoed some of the things we hear TRPers say frequently - that they prefer male friendships, that women's use to them essentially only came down to sex, etc.

This portion in particular:

However, the interviews also revealed that the "bromances" rivaled their heterosexual romantic relationships. The men felt less judged by their same-sex friends when they expressed emotion and found it easier to resolve conflicts within their homosocial relationship than their romantic one.

And

They think, however, that some of the implications of these findings are problematic for straight women. The men interviewed perceived their romantic female partners as the "primary regulators of their behavior," which led to negative, sexist attitudes toward them.

So, PPD, what are your thoughts? Are men really ready to have their emotional needs met by another man, and their physical needs met by a presumed string of single women?