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Phillips Stevens Jr., associate professor of anthropology, was quoted in an article in the Toronto Star about "man hugs." Anthropologically speaking, he said, the increasing manifestation of public man hugs in the West is evidence of cultural change from aloof stoicism to the sensitive metrosexualism.
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