manliness

If the human face and the hair that sprouts from it represents an index of manliness, cultural values did not always welcome the degree of manliness exuded by beards.

Everything from hooks and eyes and snaps and boning and anything you need to pull in all of your manliness and your man body to look like, as I call myself, an erotic clown.

Codpieces were made out of stiffer materials, decorated, stuffed, and made increasingly large to hint at one’s manliness.

As Freeman notes, these insults “demanded an immediate challenge, for they struck at the core elements of manliness and gentility.”

A bacchanal of tender manliness, this flashback in Pedro Almodóvar’s brisk English-language short film “Strange Way of Life” delivers the essence of the central love affair: a tempestuous but undeniably blazing bond.