Society is starting to attend to the lacking state of Western men’s friendships and the horrible effects this lack has on men’s health, both mental and physical. Men’s friendship crisis was explored in an episode of NPR’s Hidden Brain podcast called “The Lonely American Man”; in a Harper’s Bazaar article, “Men Have No Friends and Women Bear the Burden”; and in the book The Lonely American: Drifting Apart in the Twenty-First Century, where husband-and-wife authors Jacqueline Olds and Richard S. Schwartz highlight how men are intimate only with romantic partners while neglecting friends.
