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techno-erotic

techno-erotic adjective: regarding the association of computing technology with erotica.

Adjective

techno-erotic (not comparable)

  1. (informal) Regarding the association of computing technology with erotica.
    • 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
    • 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

Forms of techno-erotic

alternative formtechnoerotic

Origin of techno-erotic

From techno- + erotic.

Questions about techno-erotic

What does techno-erotic mean?
Techno-erotic means regarding the association of computing technology with erotica.
What part of speech is techno-erotic?
Techno-erotic is an adjective.

Words near techno-erotic in the dictionary

  1. techno-capitalist
  2. techno-capitalists
  3. techno-determinism
  4. techno-determinist
  5. techno-determinists
  6. techno-erotic
  7. techno-eugenics
  8. techno-feudalism
  9. techno-fix
  10. techno-fixes
  11. techno-fundamentalism

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