English
technosexual
From techno- + -sexual.
first attested First attested (as techno-sexual) in the 18 May 1970 edition of New York Magazine (as stated in Wiktionary’s etymology)
The story
First attested (as techno-sexual) in the 18 May 1970 edition of New York Magazine. Not attested again until the late 1990s, as technosexual.
Today it means
adj Technologically sexual: sexual in a robot-like (for example, programmable) way.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “technosexual”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / technosexual