Geisha guys give women, uh, lip service

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I wonder what the Maxim Rangers think of Asia’s Lipstick Lads? The Rangers, the creation of Crispin, Porter + Bogusky for Maxim magazine, scour the virtual landscape in search of cases of "mantropy," a disease affecting men with too many metrosexual qualities (rollerblading, enjoying seaweed wraps, wearing lightly tinted sun glasses, etc). The Lipstick Lads, described in a May 27 Wall Street Journal article of the same title, represent a new breed of placating, solicitous geisha guy that has been embraced by marketers to sell beauty products to women in Asia.

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