(CR!S) A Sapiosexual is one who finds intelligence the most sexually attractive feature.
“I want an incisive, inquisitive, insightful, irreverent mind. I want someone for whom philosophical discussion is foreplay. I want someone who sometimes makes me go ouch due to their wit and evil sense of humor. I want someone that I can reach out and touch randomly. I want someone I can cuddle with. I decided all that means that I am sapiosexual.”
Traditionally the attraction to intelligence, however it can also be extended to the attraction of proper, full sentences and the use of grammar.
Do I read the Toronto Sun? No, I am a total sapiosexual, I like sentences, paragraphs and grammar.
Now that you know, Sapiosexual is something you put on your dating profile if you want to be pretentious.
But wait, is Sapiosexual a real thing? According to The Daily Beast, Sapiosexual’ has to be one of the stupidest sexual ‘identities’ to come along in years.
In the late ’90s we collectively endured the “metrosexual,” a completely unnecessary term for a man who shaves and dares to have a few pastels in his wardrobe. And in the past couple of year, we have watched the rise and fall of the “lumbersexual,” a completely unnecessary term for a man who doesn’t shave and wears flannel.
Could Sapiosexual really mean to say a “bisexual guy who’s into smart people”. The latter has too many syllables, so is Sapiosexial a bogus sexual orientation instead.
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According to the American Psychological Association (APA) sexual orientation as “an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic and/or sexual attractions to men, women or both sexes.” These patterns of attraction, they further note, are cross-cultural, exist on a “continuum” and can give rise to a “sense of identity” or “community.”
“My cynical suspicion is that most sapiosexuals are generally defining intelligence as owning a copy of Infinite Jest, not owning a television, and generally feeling just a little bit superior to the rest of the world,” writes Emily McCombs at xoJane.
But the worst thing about sapiosexuality might be that it is redundant when smart is already considered sexy. Idioms like “the brain is the largest sex organ” aren’t aspirational or baseless—intelligence already enjoys a privileged place in our erotic economy.
We don’t need a special word—especially one modeled after minority identity labels like “homosexual” and “bisexual”—to describe a completely normative facet of human attraction. In the modern world, identifying as sapiosexual has about as much semantic utility as claiming that you are kind-sexual, dependable-sexual, or rich-sexual.