The feminine touch, but what about the masculine?

Touching. We all need that once in a while, from someone, in our lives, right?
And the most common ones are handshakes, a hand on the shoulder, or a hug. But I’m sure you already knew that.
However, what you may not know, or understand, is that females get significantly more touches than males, and that affects them in different ways.
For instance, a girl is generally always hugged by her parents, maybe siblings, maybe other girls at school, high school, and then university, and eventually work. And that can fill her up with warmth, smiles, and other good feelings.
A boy doesn’t get many hugs apart from his mom, and occasionally dad, and some relatives here and there. And that can fill him up with sadness, hatred, and make him see the world with different eyes.
Now, I’m not sure where that stems from, maybe years of indoctrination of trying to make boys grow up faster and become masters of their domain, but besides the psychological aspect, there’s a cultural aspect.
With females, you’re being led to believe that that’s what they do. They meet, they hug, they smile, and they seem to radiate these pheromones of happines.
With males, on the other hand, how many times have you seen non-gay males hug?
I know I haven’t seen it that much, maybe like a tap on the shoulder, or a London hug, which nobody likes but does regardless.
And I mentioned that word, gay, which may upset someone…