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From the NT Times, The Man Date (see BugMeNot.com for a username/password):

Simply defined a man date is two heterosexual men socializing without the crutch of business or sports. It is two guys meeting for the kind of outing a straight man might reasonably arrange with a woman.

It's an amusing concept, but as the article discusses, the problem is real: following university, guys often don't create opportunities for themselves to socialize, get advice and share thoughts with each other in the way that women instinctively do -- just to avoid the possibility of being labelled gay. According to gender historians in the article, it's a worry that is relatively modern; men in the past just didn't have the same concern.