都會美型男來源:
辛普森(Mark Simpson)在完成了他一本關於現代男性特徵的書《Male Impersonators: Men Performing Masculinity》後在獨立報的文章中發明並界定了metrosexual這一術語的意義。這個詞出自辛普森在1994年11月15日發表於獨立報的一篇文章,標題為《Here come the mirror men》,該文章主要講述新都會男性的特徵。
都會美型男的英文原名Metrosexual是個混成詞,由Metropolitan(大都市)和heterosexual(異性戀)所組合而成;另外,sexual或sexuality也可以被解釋為「性別的」或「性徵」。
辛普森的定義原文是:
The typical metrosexual is a young man with money to spend, living in or within easy reach of a metropolis -- because that's where all the best shops, clubs, gyms and hairdressers are. He might be officially gay, straight or bisexual, but this is utterly immaterial because he has clearly taken himself as his own love object and pleasure as his sexual preference. Particular professions, such as modelling, waiting tables, media, pop music and, nowadays, sport, seem to attract them but, truth be told, like male vanity products and herpes, they're pretty much everywhere.