technosex

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

techno- +‎ sex

Noun[edit]

technosex (uncountable)

  1. cybersex
    • 1991, Howard Rheingold, Virtual reality:
      The secondary social effects of technosex are potentially revolutionary. If technology enables you to experience erotic frissons or deep physical, social, emotional communion with another person with no possibility of pregnancy []
    • 1998, Rob Kitchin, Cyberspace: the world in the wires:
      Technosex can be divided into sexual conversations, usually accompanied by mutual masturbation, between people communicating via a chat facility, and sexual fantasies played out with a virtual partner, a construction of the computer.