metrosexual
The definition I’ve heard for the buzzword ‘metrosexual’ is when heterosexuals (particularly males) affect a homosexual appearance in both style of dress and mannerisms. Wikipedia indicates that the word was originally coined in 1994 by British journalist Mark Simpson, who defines it as:
“an urban heterosexual male with a strong aesthetic sense who spends a great deal of time and money on his appearance and lifestyle. He is the fashion-conscious target audience of men's magazines.
Regardless of which definition is correct, as I mentioned regarding the word ‘retrosexual,’ metrosexual doesn’t seem to fit its definition. Metrosexual would seem to imply a sexuality specifically pertaining to an urban environment (or perhaps a railway environment), which is distinctly different from hetero-, homo-, or bi- sexuality (all of which encompass the act of sex). Metrosexuality seems to deal only with appearance and only marginally pertains to an urban environment.
