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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (6 children)

What’s the male equivalent to mistress?

Consort?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Consort is not necessarily sexual, fe: The mayor was known to be consorting with known criminals. It's also not necessarily an illicit relationship: "queen consort" in the UK for example.

Paramour works for both male/female illicit sexual partners.

Personally I like "her/his poolboy" for a ladies'/man's male paramour, but that meaning is probably not going to be in a dictionary, though most people will get what is meant.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Boytoy is my preferred nomenclature for such relationships

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Logically, it would be master.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Misteress