Latin lover

plural Latin lovers

1. broadcastingA stereotype of a passionate and attractive male of Latin or Romance European origin.

   I began to consider the contradictions in these descriptions: that although Mastroianni, as commodity, was often marketed as the quintessential Italian man, his characters betrayed instead a much more conflicting image of Italian masculinity than the category of Latin lover allowed.

   2008, Krin Gabbard, William Luhr, Screening Genders, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 49