different between fetish vs technosexual

English

Alternative forms

• fetich (dated [18th c.–present])

Etymology

Borrowed from French fétiche, from Portuguese feitiço, from Latin fact?cius (“artificial”). Doublet of factitious.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: f?t??sh, f??t?sh, IPA^(key): /?f?t.??/, /?fi?.t??/

Noun

fetish (plural fetishes)

1. Something which is believed to possess, contain, or cause spiritual or magical powers; an amulet or a talisman. [from the early 17th c.]
2. Sexual attraction to or arousal at something abnormally sexual or nonsexual, such as an object or a part of the body. [from the early 19th c.]

   Synonym: paraphilia
3. An irrational, or abnormal fixation or preoccupation; an obsession. [from the 19th c.]
   • 1933, George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London (Harvest / Harcourt paperback edition), chapter XXII, page 117:

     We have a feeling that it must be "honest" work, because it is hard and disagreeable, and we have made a sort of fetish of manual work.

Derived terms

• fet
• fetishism
• fetishist
• fetishistic
• fetishize
• fetishlike
• fetishwear

Translations

Anagrams

• feiths, thiefs

English

Etymology

techno- +? -sexual. First attested (as techno-sexual) in the 18 May 1970 edition of New York Magazine. Not attested again until the late 1990s, as technosexual.

Adjective

technosexual (not comparable)

1. Technologically sexual: sexual in a robot-like (for example, programmable) way.
   • 1997, Janet Lungstrum, Metropolis and the Technosexual Woman of German Modernity, in Women in the Metropolis: Gender and Modernity in Weimar Culture (Katharina von Ankum, editor; Berkley: UC Press), pages 128-144; abstract:

     […] Women of the time were constructed to be the technosexual Other, robot-like & programmable, as in Fritz Lang's film Metropolis (1927). Other images of women as sex machine in film & literature of the time are described. […]

   • 2007, Ashley Dawson, Malini Johar Schueller, Exceptional State: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the New Imperialism, page 167:

     It is a technosexual dominance marked by order, control, and precision, one which seeks to reduce the Other to disorder, chaos, and destruction through discourses of homophobia and masculinity.

2. Expressing, or pertaining to the expression of, sexuality through technology or technological media.

Related terms

• technosex
• technosexuality

Noun

technosexual (plural technosexuals)

1. Someone with a sexual fetish for or sexual attraction to machines, robots, computers or androids. [since 2004]
   • 2004 March 22, Robert X. Cringeley, Always the Last to Know, in InfoWorld, issue 12, page 14:

     At this rate, I may give up on women entirely and become a technosexual.

   • 2005, Johnny Blue, The Blue Riders' Club (Trafford), page 59:

     LESLIE: Don't forget, I was fucking a machine, not a man.

     GARY: What does that make you then, technosexual?

   • 2005, Dennis Hans, National Catholic Reporter, "Plankton's insidious technosexual agenda":

     Plankton isn’t gay; he’s technosexual. His wife, Karen -- the apple of his one and only eye -- is a computer.
2. (neologism) A person, especially a male metrosexual, who expresses himself or herself (including in terms of sexuality) through technological devices. [since 2006]
   • 2006, Business Venezuela, issues 275-279 (Venezuelan-American Chamber of Commerce):

     Metrosexuals have opened the door to close kin such as technosexuals (basically, metrosexuals who like gadgets).

   • 2007 May 9, Samantha Brett, Sydney Morning Herald, "Ask Sam TV Ep 10 - What women want next: the technosexual?" [1]:

     But fast forward to today and it seems Mr. Joe has become a full-blown technosexual icon […]

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