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What is the male version of a mistress?

Mastress? Master? Mantress?

Gigolo?

Lucky? [:o)]

I like mantress. He can carry a murse too!

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It depends on how you mean mistress.

If you mean it as the equal and male version of mistress then the word you want is "master"; however, the linguistic evolution of these words has come to mean something else altogether in our patriarchal oriented society.

A man can be a master, but a woman can't. Instead she is given the term "mistress" which has wound up being a term for a sexually deviant woman who is being "kept" by a man. A man can't be a mistress because he is always the "master". Master is proper and mistress is lascivious. This runs along the same lines as a man being a bachelor if he is single beyond a certain age and woman being an "old maid" or a "spinster". Damn the double standards, damn them!!! [:0]These are examples of how our language dictates our thoughts and viceversa. Sapir-Whorf in action!

Maybe gigolo is a better word. Although I'd still like to see him traipsing around with his murse. [;)] lol.

"I'm subversive as hell!" ~Theodor Geisel

I think the correct term for an extramarital male partner is simply "lover," as in Lady Blir took a break from breastfeeding to see her lover.

Adding an -ess to a word makes it femminine like tiger-ess, lioness, etc - so "mastress" wouldn't work.

Lady Blir and Tiger-ess--LOL!

There is a pretty good market here for drag queens.

I'm just saying ...