techno-erotic

adjective

Regarding the association of computing technology with erotica.

Meanings

adjectivetechno-erotic (not comparable)

alternative technoerotic

  1. informalnot comparableRegarding the association of computing technology with erotica.

    Its raison d’être is the technoerotic celebration of a reality to be found on the far side of a computer screen and in the “neural nets” of a “liberated,” disembodied, computerized yet sensate consciousness.

    1994, Mark Dery, Flame Wars: the discourse of cyberculture, page 19
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    Similarly, no reader, no matter how literal-minded, could be innocent of the gendered erotic trope that figures the hero’s probing nature’s laminated secrets, glorying simultaneously in the layered complexity and in his own techno-erotic touch that never goes deeper.

    1993 July, Linda S. Kauffman, editor, American Feminist Thought: At Century's End, Blackwell Publishing, page 201

    I argue that the newer electronic technologies have inspired changes in techno-erotic imagery in some popular-culture texts but that other texts recycle techno-erotic conventions derived from Western society’s industrial past

    1996, Claudia Springer, Electronic Eros: Bodies and Desire in the Postindustrial Age, University of Texas Press, page 8

Origin

  1. Ancient Greekτεχνο- (tekhno-)
  2. Englishtechno-
  3. Ancient Greekἐρωτῐκός (erōtĭkós)
  4. Latinerōticu
  5. Frenchérotique
  6. Englisherotic
  7. Englishtechno-erotic

From techno- + erotic.

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