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compusex

compusex noun: cybersex.

Noun

compusex (uncountable)

  1. (dated, rare) Cybersex.
    • One of the more bizarre aspects of America's love affair with the personal computer is the growing popularity of CompuSex. This is a new form of erotic entertainment in which consenting computer owners exchange X-rated messages over the telephone lines […]1994, Julius Lukasiewicz, Ignorance Explosion: Understanding Industrial Civilization, page 71
    • In one case, cited by several sources, a woman became so involved as Joan's compusex lover that she was on the verge of leaving her husband.1984, Time magazine, cited in 1996, Rob Kling, Computerization and Controversy (page 540)

Origin of compusex

Blend of computer + sex.

Questions about compusex

What does compusex mean?
Compusex means cybersex.
What part of speech is compusex?
Compusex is a noun.

Words near compusex in the dictionary

  1. compurgatory
  2. compurgatrices
  3. compurgatrix
  4. compursion
  5. compursions
  6. compusex
  7. compuspeak
  8. computabilities
  9. computability
  10. computability logic
  11. computability theory

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