techno-erotic

See also: technoerotic

English

Alternative forms

• technoerotic

Etymology

From techno- +‎ erotic.

Adjective

techno-erotic (not comparable)

1. (informal) Regarding the association of computing technology with erotica.
   • 1993 July, Linda S. Kauffman, editor, American Feminist Thought: At Century's End, Blackwell Publishing, page 201:

     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.

   • 1994, Mark Dery, Flame Wars: the discourse of cyberculture, page 19:

     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.

   • 1996, Claudia Springer, Electronic Eros: Bodies and Desire in the Postindustrial Age, University of Texas Press, page 8:

     I argue that the newer electronic technologies have inspired changes in techno-erotic imagery in some popular-culture texts but that other texts recycle techno-erotic conventions derived from Western society’s industrial past

References

• Mondo 2000: A User's Guide to the New Edge, 1992