Sapiosexuals

[darkbeast]

I've had this idea kicking around my head for awhile and I can't formulate a sexualized plot around it and definitely don't have time to pursue it.

I know a few sapiosexuals, people who find intelligence attractive. The thing is they aren't true sapiosexuals since intelligence is just attractive to them but they still require all the other sexual cues to become truly aroused.

Yes, I know this concept falls directly in the nerd/geek fantasy, but why not a man/woman who is a true sapiosexual, who becomes intensely aroused by intelligence. Instead of porn vids and erotic novels, the sapiosexual has Nova and biographies of famous intellects like Stephen Hawking, Dian Fossey, Isaac Asimov, and Da Vinci.

I see the story almost like the tale of Diogenes looking for an honest person. The sapiosexual protagonist can be in search of that perfect intelligent person for the perfect sexual thrill.

 

[snoopercharmbrights]

... I see the story almost like the tale of Diogenes looking for an honest person. The sapiosexual protagonist can be in search of that perfect intelligent person for the perfect sexual thrill.

Then (s)he meets Deep Blue from Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and dies of continuous uncontrollable orgasms?

 

[emap]

Just never have her go to a trek convention.

I can see this though, she works hard to get a job in that mass accelerator thingy, the big one that was going to make a black hole when it opened. She has like continuous orgasms as she walks around so the staff decide to put her in a room and drop by one at a time to probe her for their own pleasure and talk big for hers.

i admit it sounds nice to me, a slightly more normal thought, she goes to the rocket science conventions to try and find a single smarty, probably end up with one nighters in the process, though seriously they are rocket scientists they must know how to stay disease free.

Altnately, she is not looking for a husband, she is just a groupie to rocket scientists and gives them the perks groupies give.

 

[Epmd607]

I've had this idea kicking around my head for awhile and I can't formulate a sexualized plot around it and definitely don't have time to pursue it.

I know a few sapiosexuals, people who find intelligence attractive. The thing is they aren't true sapiosexuals since intelligence is just attractive to them but they still require all the other sexual cues to become truly aroused.

Yes, I know this concept falls directly in the nerd/geek fantasy, but why not a man/woman who is a true sapiosexual, who becomes intensely aroused by intelligence. Instead of porn vids and erotic novels, the sapiosexual has Nova and biographies of famous intellects like Stephen Hawking, Dian Fossey, Isaac Asimov, and Da Vinci.

I see the story almost like the tale of Diogenes looking for an honest person. The sapiosexual protagonist can be in search of that perfect intelligent person for the perfect sexual thrill.

My buddy's wife gives me boners all the time from various ways she shows her intelligence. I think it qualifies as real life arousal, she is pretty average looking. My wife is smart, but I was attracted to her body first, whereas with this other girl I'm turned on by her super smarts. I don't know that the physical signs of arousal based on some sort of intellect fetish is that sci-fi.

 

[darkbeast]

My buddy's wife gives me boners all the time from various ways she shows her intelligence. I think it qualifies as real life arousal, she is pretty average looking. My wife is smart, but I was attracted to her body first, whereas with this other girl I'm turned on by her super smarts. I don't know that the physical signs of arousal based on some sort of intellect fetish is that sci-fi.

Sapiosexuality is real, people can become aroused from traits like intelligence. Human sexuality is weird and fluid, a lot weirder and more fluid than we allow it to be since we really feel a need to label and codify, but I'm getting off track.

In general, though, when someone says they are a sapiosexual, they are using the term in the same way when I say I prefer redheads. I am more likely to get aroused in the presence of redheads but the presence of redhair doesn't automatically make me aroused.

There was an episode of the Savage Love podcast that talked about a girl who masturbated to the GrammarGirl podcast and told her boyfriend that she gets off on correcting people's grammar. That is a very specific 'fetish' that I think falls into this category, thought a sapiosexual would probably get off on seeing someone else's grammar corrected, or her grammar corrected by a smart person.

I do think librarian and teacher fantasies also are part of this in some degree.

 

[darkbeast]

Altnately, she is not looking for a husband, she is just a groupie to rocket scientists and gives them the perks groupies give.

This sort of makes me think of the woman from Real Genius who wants to bed the top 10 smartest men.

 

[Epmd607]

Many of the smartest folks on the planet also have various socialization issues. At face value it would make most sense to procreate with the smartest of folks because it seems they have the best chances at succeeding in our society and are in the best situations to take care of us in old age. But the smartest people often have difficultly even functioning in our society. Tesla comes to mind. He could certainly function, was a good salesman as scientist, though he couldn't develop healthy human relationships.

 

[JRaven]

Benjamin Franklein and Albert Eintein come to mind. Both were very intelligent. And, they were both quite the ladies' man.

 

[silverwhisper]

darkbeast, wouldn't it be sapiophile?

i agree w/ jraven that intelligence/poor social skills are necessarily related. david byrne, former lead singer/frontman for the talking heads, has an IQ high enough it isn't reliably measured by tests (generally the 170+ range). yet he's incredibly engaging and entertaining. i know it's a bit of a geek sacred cow that intelligence & social awkwardness go hand in hand--but it's also a conceit.

ed

 

[darkbeast]

Legitimately, it might be sapiophile, but sapiosexual is already the accepted term (as in the website sapiosexual.com).

The ultimate resource for such things is googlefight.com of course...

http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=sapiosexual&word2=sapiophile

 

[snoopercharmbrights]

... I can see this though, she works hard to get a job in that mass accelerator thingy, the big one that was going to make a black hole when it opened. ...

The only black hole the LHC made, or was ever thought likely to make (except by journalists), is in the government science budgets of the countries involved.

... though seriously they are rocket scientists they must know how to stay disease free.

To coin a phrase, staying disease free is NOT rocket science, just common sense.

... Altnately, she is not looking for a husband, she is just a groupie to rocket scientists and gives them the perks groupies give.

Tell her computer security experts who write porn novels are really brilliant and point her my way!

 

[emap]

Sadly common sense has left certain areas, like say Africa where bedding a virgin cures you of aids.

Of course there is always the US, and... Well Ok so common sense is not so common.

Wait aren't you rather old to be a computer security expert? I mean you grew up when TV's were new and not common.

 

[snoopercharmbrights]

... Wait aren't you rather old to be a computer security expert? I mean you grew up when TV's were new and not common.

I started to write my first computer programme (as we called them then) in 1958 (and yes - it's almost finished). As to expertise see ISBN 0 86353 180 6, and I wrote some of the ISO 17799 standard.

 

[Hiliburn]

I've had this idea kicking around my head for awhile and I can't formulate a sexualized plot around it and definitely don't have time to pursue it.

I know a few sapiosexuals, people who find intelligence attractive. The thing is they aren't true sapiosexuals since intelligence is just attractive to them but they still require all the other sexual cues to become truly aroused.

Yes, I know this concept falls directly in the nerd/geek fantasy, but why not a man/woman who is a true sapiosexual, who becomes intensely aroused by intelligence. Instead of porn vids and erotic novels, the sapiosexual has Nova and biographies of famous intellects like Stephen Hawking, Dian Fossey, Isaac Asimov, and Da Vinci.

I see the story almost like the tale of Diogenes looking for an honest person. The sapiosexual protagonist can be in search of that perfect intelligent person for the perfect sexual thrill.

I have come across 2 people who were completely like this. Sapiosexual was a new term to me, but I do understand it. Having someone who is able to stimulate the mind certainly adds to the physically stimulation. Witty banter and philiosophical discussions are stimulating to the people involved in them. I fear your trick would be to make it interesting to those who are more into 'tits n ass', or the visual realm. But I am interested in the idea, I much prefer the written word....

 

[Epmd607]

I have come across 2 people who were completely like this. Sapiosexual was a new term to me, but I do understand it. Having someone who is able to stimulate the mind certainly adds to the physically stimulation. Witty banter and philiosophical discussions are stimulating to the people involved in them. I fear your trick would be to make it interesting to those who are more into 'tits n ass', or the visual realm. But I am interested in the idea, I much prefer the written word....

You have to remember that people who read stories here are passing up the hardcore myriad of free visuals to use their minds to imagine the scenes the authors set. Every regular reader at Lit is probably a little sapiosexual, as we're turned on by the written word. The difference would be, a sapiosexual would probably enjoy a harsh literary critique of a sex story more than the sex story itself. Maybe Nietzsche was a sapiosexual and Thus Spake Zarathustra was what gave him a bone. The first sapiosex story...haha

 

[emap]

I started to write my first computer programme (as we called them then) in 1958 (and yes - it's almost finished). As to expertise see ISBN 0 86353 180 6, and I wrote some of the ISO 17799 standard.

Now see you are so just showing off now.

 

[Prufrockhard]

It's out there

T.S Elliot wrote one of the worlds greatest poems about just this subject. The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock. I am that character. I am too shy and unable to communicate usual social nicities and baffeled by dating / seduction rituals. I miss all the cues my wife tells me. Hell, when i first layed eyes on my now wife of 30 years, she called me "A Chavaunistic pig," I said "you don't even know who Chavan(sp) was!" That did it. Her mind was challanged and i had her the next night.
I agree with the posters who say many on this board are above average. I've read thoughtful responses and stupid blather to the same topic...much more the former. So yeah, under 100, not so much. Whit, insight, deep thinking and associated approach to sex, allows the sexual dimension's expansion and allows a smokin hot sexual matryx once entered.
Read the poem.

 

[JRaven]

I started to write my first computer programme (as we called them then) in 1958 (and yes - it's almost finished). As to expertise see ISBN 0 86353 180 6, and I wrote some of the ISO 17799 standard.

1958 and still not finished?
You write programmes like I write stories!

 

[Epmd607]

T.S Elliot wrote one of the worlds greatest poems about just this subject. The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock. I am that character. I am too shy and unable to communicate usual social nicities and baffeled by dating / seduction rituals. I miss all the cues my wife tells me. Hell, when i first layed eyes on my now wife of 30 years, she called me "A Chavaunistic pig," I said "you don't even know who Chavan(sp) was!" That did it. Her mind was challanged and i had her the next night.
I agree with the posters who say many on this board are above average. I've read thoughtful responses and stupid blather to the same topic...much more the former. So yeah, under 100, not so much. Whit, insight, deep thinking and associated approach to sex, allows the sexual dimension's expansion and allows a smokin hot sexual matryx once entered.
Read the poem.

Cool story, bro. Work on your spelling and grammar if you want to turn chicks on here.

 

[snoopercharmbrights]

I started to write my first computer programme (as we called them then) in 1958 (and yes - it's almost finished). ...

1958 and still not finished? ...

It's just what everybody asks, and my standard answer.

... You write programmes like I write stories!

But not as elegantly.