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Need to get away? Make it a guy thing
Male bonding goes to the next level:'Mancations'
By Jayne Clark

In simpler times, men who wanted to get away in the exclusive company of their gender might don camouflage and take off for the woods, seek out a fishing hole or hit the golf course. Afterward, maybe they'd drink beer, belch with abandon and tell off-color stories in the easy fraternity of guydom.

But that was before marketing became high art.

To hear it from PR types, the guys getaway is no longer just a getaway. It's now a "mancation." And marketers are jumping on the concept like linemen sacking a quarterback.

San Francisco-based Personality Hotels supplies guests with a list of adult clubs and tattoo parlors, plus condoms and beer.

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