technosexual

Meanings

Adjective

• Technologically sexual: sexual in a robot-like (for example, programmable) way.
• Expressing, or pertaining to the expression of, sexuality through technology or technological media.

Noun

• Someone with a sexual fetish for or sexual attraction to machines, robots, computers or androids.
• A person, especially a male metrosexual, who expresses himself or herself (including in terms of sexuality) through technological devices.

Origin

• 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.