We explain what a sapiosexual is, the origin and meaning of this term. Also, what are the aspirations of a sapiosexual.
What is a sapiosexual?
The term is used sapiosexual to refer to those people whose erotic interest is determined by intelligence. In other words, they are people who are erotically attracted to those who demonstrate knowledge, mental quickness, acuity or talent, rather than physical attributes or other characteristics. However, the sapiosexuals They usually build relationships of friendly love, far from the passionate.
This term comes from a new use of the Latin root sapere (“Know”)in the same way that it is used to refer to the scientific name of our species: Homo sapiensthe man who knows things.
In that sense, it is assumed that the sapiosexuals They prioritize the mind over the body and they fall in love with the first without caring too much about the second, so, in theory, they could be totally indifferent to their gender or biological sex. This fashionable label in social networks and dating software has been widely accepted by the community, but arouses little interest among sexologists and scholars of the subject, who normally consider it a fashion.
It is a useful label, as they indicate, to insist on a highly traditional aspect of human relationships, which is the valuation of an individual's way of being over their appearance or social behavior. In that sense, the sapiosexuals They would aspire to meaningful relationships, exchange of knowledge and mutual learning, and not just carnal relationships.
The paradox is that, in principle, what the sapiosexuals Aspire has always been known as love. Perhaps the need to classify oneself in this way responds to the fact that in recent times the world of emotional and erotic relationships has been more trivialized and commercialized than ever, through a culture of superficial evaluation, simulation and appearance, which enhance tools like Tinder or Grinder, in which you quickly choose or discard without needing to know much about the other person.
If so, the sapiosexuals They would be more a symptom or a claim to our societythan a truly novel sexual orientation.
References
- Sapiosexuals: when the brain is what turns you on the most. El Mundo Newspaper.
- What is a sapiosexual? Very interesting magazine.