I will never understand straight men

Last night (being Saturday - yes, I'm a bit behind on my blogging) a friend who I admire for his intellect, humour and emotional intelligence (among other traits) celebrated his forthcoming wedding by holding - in conjunction with his bride-to-be, another friend, whose wit, insight and wickedness I also find delightful - their huck's night, ie a combined bucks and hens night.

In the invitation, said male friend commented that one of the reasons for having a huck's night was because he didn't want to be dragged off to a strip club by his so-called friends.

Why then, did his heterosexual male friends do just that? Why did they not only chose to ignore his stated desires, but also feel the need to publicly humiliate him (the details of which I shall refrain from describing here) by dragging him to a strip club, and subjecting him to the attendent, demeaning, bucks night rituals which are only too well known?

Was it sublimated homosexuality, ie 'we all want to see him with his gear off and this is the only way we can do it without looking like poofters in front of our mates and to ourselves'? Some kind of strange homosocial ritual that a poof like me can't help but see as dripping with homosexual connotations but which is really just some kind of hetero male bonding taken to a farcial extreme?

I don't get it, I really don't. All I know is that regardless of whether the indivudual involved was a male or female friend, bent or straight, what happened last night made me angry, and made me quite sure that whenever friends of mine get married again, what I want to do is celebrate their life and their forthcoming nuptials; not demean, mock and humilate them.

Like the title of this post says, I will never understand straight men. Will someone please explain what I'm evidently not comprehending?

PS - MrBuck or Ms Hen, should you prefer this subject not be discussed in the public realm of the blogosphere, just say the word and I'll delete this post immediately. I'm just confused, is all, and I so needed to vent... Oh, and apart from this glitch in the evening's activities? I so had an excellent time!!!