hmm.. i bumped into this word.. and felt like "ooohh... i didn't know that word existed... another word i could add in my scrabble list" hehehe.. for those like me who didn't know the word.. Metrosexual From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Metrosexual is a term coined in 1994 (along with the noun , metrosexuality) by British journalist Mark Simpson , who used it to refer to 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 . He is the fashion -conscious target audience of men's magazines: The promotion of metrosexuality was left to the men's style press, magazines such as The Face , GQ , Esquire , Arena and FHM , the new media which took off in the 1980s and is still growing (GQ gains 10,000 new readers every month). They filled their magazines with images of narcissistic young men sporting fashionable clothes and accessories. And they persuaded other y...