technosexual
Someone with a sexual fetish for or sexual attraction to machines, robots, computers or androids.
Adjective
- Technologically sexual: sexual in a robot-like (for example, programmable) way.
- […] Women of the time were constructed to be the technosexual Other, robot-like & programmable, as in Fritz Lang's film Metropolis (1927). Other images of women as sex machine in film & literature of the time are...
- By contrast, women artists who considered the theme of the mannequin-woman precisely undermined this form of elision between women on the street and the idealised technosexual forms of woman displayed in magazines, shop...
- It is a technosexual dominance marked by order, control, and precision, one which seeks to reduce the Other to disorder, chaos, and destruction through discourses of homophobia and masculinity. - 2007, Ashley Dawson,...
- Expressing, or pertaining to the expression of, sexuality through technology or technological media.
- Immediate fallout from the scandal included a call for the mayor's resignation from the city's 900-member municipal union and public embarrassment for Kilpatrick's wife and family as the tragic technosexual tale spread...
- They discuss the implications of online dating; online pornography; virtual sex in the fantasy worlds of Second Life and The Sims; and technosexual intercourse, an activity traditionally associated with phone sex but...
- Aiming at a slightly older crowd, Calvin Klein introduced a pair of perfumes for the "technosexual generation" — the company's phrase, not mine — named CK in2U. The ad campaign featured the lines "She likes how he...
Origin
From techno- + -sexual. First attested (as techno-sexual) in the 18 May 1970 edition of New York Magazine. Not attested again until the late 1990s, as technosexual.
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Noun
- Someone with a sexual fetish for or sexual attraction to machines, robots, computers or androids.
- At this rate, I may give up on women entirely and become a technosexual. - 2004 March 22, Robert X. Cringeley, “Always the Last to Know”, in InfoWorld, number 12, page 14:
- LESLIE: Don't forget, I was fucking a machine, not a man. GARY: What does that make you then, technosexual? - 2005, Johnny Blue, The Blue Riders' Club, Trafford, page 59:
- Plankton isn’t gay; he’s technosexual. His wife, Karen -- the apple of his one and only eye -- is a computer. - 2005, Dennis Hans, “Plankton's insidious technosexual agenda”, in National Catholic Reporter:
- A person, especially a male metrosexual, who expresses himself or herself (including in terms of sexuality) through technological devices.
- Metrosexuals have opened the door to close kin such as technosexuals (basically, metrosexuals who like gadgets). - 2006, Business Venezuela, issues 275-279 (Venezuelan-American Chamber of Commerce)
- But fast forward to today and it seems Mr. Joe has become a full-blown technosexual icon […] - 2007 May 9, Samantha Brett, Sydney Morning Herald, "Ask Sam TV Ep 10 - What women want next: the technosexual?"...
- The technosexual fucks the network (this is not rape, for the network is receptive by design), ejaculating signs, creating a form of pornography aligned with his or her desire (this is not always an act of conscious...