digisexual
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌdɪ.dʒiˈsɛk.ʃuː.əl/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌdɪ.dʒiˈsɛk.ʃu.əl/
- Rhymes: -ɛkʃuəl, -ɛkʃuːəl
- Hyphenation: di‧gi‧sex‧ual
Noun
digisexual (plural digisexuals)
- (neologism) A person who is sexually attracted to robots or other technologically-mediated forms of sexuality.
- 2013, Scott Adams, Your New Job Title Is "Accomplice": A Dilbert Book, →ISBN, page 67:
- No Thanks. I'm a digisexual now.
- 2017 November 29, “Future 'Digisexuals' Will Face Discrimination for Fucking Robots, Professors Warn”, in Broadly:
- “The more we studied the emergence of what we call ‘second wave’ digisexual technologies ... the more we realized that digisexuals are going to emerge as a real community, and they are going to face resistance from the start,” McArthur says.
- 2017, Neil McArthur, Markie L.C. Twist, “The rise of digisexuality: Therapeutic challenges and possibilities”, in Sexual and Relationship Therapy:
- As these technologies advance, their adoption will grow, and many people may come to identify themselves as “digisexuals”–people whose primary sexual identity comes through the use of technology.
Derived terms
See also
- fictosexual