Do you hug your friends that are the same sex as you?

[emmascott]

You can hug everybody as long as it doesn't have any double meaning at all.

[dejec1989]

I grew up with hand shakes for the men and hugs for the women unless it is your family, then bets are off and it's hugs all round

[Bearfist]

I like giving and getting hugs. Female, and I hug my female friends lots. Well, not like all the time. But in greeting/parting, gift giving, ect. I will go up to my mother/best friend and just hug them when I want physical attention. Yes, I'm lonely. I know T^T But yea, I'm a hugger. Although giving man hugs is fun too. You know, the clasp hands, pull in and slap each other on the back hugs that 'dudes' do.

[edlike]

hugs are great. i've always been an affectionate person.

[cFortyfive]

Not on some daily basis but on suitable occasions like a friend recently who gets married.

[Arunu]

ofcourse, bro hugs are awesome.
Usually reserved for when i haven't seen them in a while though, not for every day use.

[Splenda]

Yeah, but I'm a girl and that's always going to be perfectly acceptable.

Well, I actually don't hug anyone because hugs sort of weird me out, but I accept hugs from all genders.

[Dragonix80]

I do the hand-shake hug where you hand shake grab and then put your other arm around the other guy.

Same here.

[Anakso]

I never have unless you count my dad. I mean I wouldn't be opposed to it but it's just never come up. I'm a guy and it might be a little stranger to do as a guy where as girls I know do it all the time.

To be fair though, the only person I've hugged in a very long time was my dad when he went back to New Zealand.

[Stormcall]

I generally don't like being touched period(handshakes, hugs, pat on the back, ANYTHING) by anyone I'm not at least fairly close to, and most of my close friends are females. If I had a close guy friend who hugged it wouldn't bother me, never bothered me with male family members either.

[Asics]

I don't hug everyone I know. I do hug my good friends and family though.

[Deleted]

I don't hug everyone I know. I do hug my good friends and family though.

same here .

[Woebegone]

And I always thought it was supposed to be the Europeans that were very huggy and affectionate!

Despite being a part of Europe, rest assured Finns are anything but huggy and affectionate.

Except when drunk, but it's not like any social norms apply at that point anyway.