> Setting up a kick-ass home-theatre system can make a man feel virile > "manliness points" or virility or whatever That section is establishing that manlines

> Setting up a kick-ass home-theatre system can make a man feel virile > "manliness points" or virility or whatever That section is establishing that manliness and virility haven't always meant the same thing. They have been fluid and often heavily overlapping but they are distinct. I interpreted the association to "manly vigor" as some men grasping for a feeling in lieu of a modern day "virility". > others sought to exclude “natives” from the élite club of virilitas, arguing that sex in non-European societies was mere lust and, therefore, manly rather than virile. In the same sense, it may not be "manly" to be able to set up a home theatre system, but it does generally come with a sense of accomplishment and feeling of mastery over machine which may well be descended from culturally from "virility".