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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A man who embraces traditional masculinity in his dress and behavior..
Think of him as the anti-metrosexual, the opposite of that guy who emerged in the 1990s in all his pedicured, moussed-up, skinny-jeans glory. That man-boy was searching for his inner girl, it was argued. The retrosexual, however, wants to put the man back into manhood.
It's been so long I've become a retrosexual.
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Retrosexual means A man who embraces traditional masculinity in his dress and behavior..
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Think of him as the anti-metrosexual, the opposite of that guy who emerged in the 1990s in all his pedicured, moussed-up, skinny-jeans glory. That man-boy was searching for his inner girl, it was argued. The retrosexual, however, wants to put the man back into manhood.
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