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.
If a French politician, businessman or senior bureaucrat doesn’t have at least one mistress, people wonder what’s wrong with him.
He’s prob gay
What’s the male equivalent to mistress?
Consort?
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.
Boytoy is my preferred nomenclature for such relationships
Mister
Logically, it would be master.
Misteress
Himbo?