Akademik

n.

A person who is sexually attracted to intelligent people. —adj.

—sapiosexuality n.

Now relocated to Paris after years living in Co. Kildare, husky-voiced chanteuse Marianne Faithfull speaks enthusiastically of a little-known entry in the lexicon of love. The 65-year-old says: 'There is this fantastic new term and I really hope it exists. It's "sapiosexual"... It means being attracted sexually to people's minds as well as their bodies. And there was a lot of it around in the Sixties, let me tell you.'

—Isaac Bickerstaffe, "Now relocated to Paris after...," Irish Daily Mail, April 24, 2012

"Sapiosexual" is a relatively new word that refers to a person who is erotically attracted to intelligence.

—Rob Brezsny, " Free Will Astrology: November 21-27, 2012: http://www.villagevoice.com/2012-11-21/columns/free-will-astrology-november-21-27-2012/," The Village Voice, November 21, 2012

Here's an e-mail that I sent out a while back on what I mean by sapiosexual....

I want an incisive, inquisitive, insightful, irreverent mind. I want someone for whom philosophical discussion is foreplay. ...I decided all that means that I am sapiosexual....I invented this term while on too little sleep driving up from SF in the summer of '98.

—Torin/Darren WhoEver, " Stoked on sapiosexuality: http://wolfieboy.livejournal.com/2262.html," LiveJournal, March 15, 2003

This term is more or less a blend of the adjectives sapient (wise or sagacious; cf. homo sapiens) and sexual, with an o shoehorned in to mirror terms such as heterosexual and homosexual.