Metrosexuel

Term appeared in English for the first time in 1994 in an article of the English journalist Simpson Mark in the newspaper The Independant.

Mark Simpson difines the metrosexuel as follows: « The metrosexual, is an urban male of any sexual orientation who has a strong aesthetic sense and spends a great deal of time and money on his appearance and lifestyle. » Therefore, the métrosexuel is an urban man, with the developed direction of the esthetics, which spends enormously of time and money in its appearance and its life style. One uses this term to qualify people who pay great attention to them, take care of their body, their food, etc. This qualifier is given to many personalities such as David Beckham, Robbie Williams or Frederic Michalak or Loic Aubonney.

"Metro": compared to the metropolitan man. "Sexual": the man (in the context of seduction and sexual attraction).

Opposite: Ubersexuel