technosexual — Dizionario inglese

Aggettivo

1. Technologically sexual: sexual in a robot-like (for example, programmable) way.

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   • not-comparable

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   […] 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 described. […]

   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.

2. Expressing, or pertaining to the expression of, sexuality through technology or technological media.

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   • not-comparable

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   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."

Sostantivo

1. Someone with a sexual fetish for or sexual attraction to machines, robots, computers or androids.

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   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?

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   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, […]

2. A person, especially a male metrosexual, who expresses himself or herself (including in terms of sexuality) through technological devices.

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   • neologism

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   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 […]

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   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); […]