Technosexual vs Technophilia - What's the difference?
technosexual | technophilia |
Technologically sexual: sexual in a robot-like (for example, programmable) way.
* 1997', Janet Lungstrum, Metropolis'' and the '''Technosexual Woman of German Modernity'', in ''Women in the Metropolis: Gender and Modernity in Weimar Culture (Katharina von Ankum, editor; Berkley: UC Press), pages 128-144; abstract:
* 1999 , Marsha Meskimmon, We Weren't Modern Enough: Women Artists and the Limits of German Modernism , page 61:
* 2007 , Ashley Dawson, Malini Johar Schueller, Exceptional State: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the New Imperialism , page 167:
Expressing, or pertaining to the expression of, sexuality through technology or technological media.
* 2009 , Nancy Flynn, The E-Policy Handbook: Rules and Best Practices to Safely Manage Your Company's E-Mail, Blogs, Social Networking, and Other Electronic Communication Tools , page 161:
* 2010 , Daniel Reimold, Sex and the University: Celebrity, Controversy, and a Student Journalism Revolution , page 87:
* 2011 , Mark Abley, The Prodigal Tongue: Dispatches from the Future of English , page 227:
Someone with a sexual fetish for or sexual attraction to machines, robots, computers or androids.
*2004 March 22, Robert X. Cringeley, Always the Last to Know'', in ''InfoWorld , issue 12, page 14:
*2005 , Johnny Blue, The Blue Riders' Club (Trafford), page 59:
*2005 , Dennis Hans, National Catholic Reporter ,
* 2010 , Anthony Ferguson, The Sex Doll: A History , page 204:
(neologism) A person, especially a male metrosexual, who expresses himself or herself (including in terms of sexuality) through technological devices.
* 2006 , Business Venezuela , issues 275-279 (Venezuelan-American Chamber of Commerce):
* 2007' May 9, Samantha Brett, ''Sydney Morning Herald'', "Ask Sam TV Ep 10 - What women want next: the ' technosexual ?" [http://blogs.smh.com.au/lifestyle/asksam/archives/2007/05/sam_and_the_tv_ep_10_what_wome.html]:
* 2010 , Eric Freedman, Transient Images: Personal Media in Public Frameworks , page 166:
As nouns the difference between technosexual and technophilia
is that technosexual is someone with a sexual fetish for or sexual attraction to machines, robots, computers or androids while technophilia is a love of new technologies.As an adjective technosexual
is technologically sexual: sexual in a robot-like (for example, programmable) way.technosexual
English
Adjective
(-)- 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 windows and on advertising poles.
- 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.
- 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 nationwide thanks to coverage in prominent media outlets.
- 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 now embracing all manner of cyber-based connections such as "sexting" (sexually explicit text messaging) and erotic instant messaging.
- 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 blogs, her texts turn him on. It's intense. For right now."
Noun
(en noun)- At this rate, I may give up on women entirely and become a technosexual .
- LESLIE: Don't forget, I was fucking a machine, not a man.
- GARY: What does that make you then, technosexual ?
"Plankton's insidious technosexual agenda":
- Plankton isn’t gay; he’s technosexual . His wife, Karen -- the apple of his one and only eye -- is a computer.
- There is no single, stereotypical sex doll user. These curious, ever-evolving objects are desired by some for their artistic quality, by others for their complicit silence. The technosexual admires their cold, emotionless, robotic texture,
- Metrosexuals have opened the door to close kin such as technosexuals (basically, metrosexuals who like gadgets).
- But fast forward to today and it seems Mr. Joe has become a full-blown technosexual icon ...
- 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 exhibitionism);