ABSTRACT
Boys learn very early that they had better be able to bond. What they learn in order to bond is an elaborate behavioural code of gestures, speech habits and attitudes, which effectively exclude women from the society of men. Male bonding is how men learn from each other that they are entitled under patriarchy to power in the culture. Male bonding is how men get that power, and male bonding is how it is kept. Therefore, men enforce a taboo against unbonding - a taboo which is fundamental to patriarchal society.
