Sapiosexual is the concept used to designate people who consider intelligence as the main factor of sexual attraction. The origin of this word comes from the word “sapiens”, which means wise or wise.
Sapiosexais are emotionally linked to new stimuli and pay little attention to what they consider repetitive, they are people who have a characteristic that personality psychology defines as openness to experience.
- Precisely for this reason.
- When it comes to seduction.
- They are especially drawn to conversations that open their minds.
- This activation.
- Which is initially only mental.
- Eventually spreads to other levels.
- Such as the physical.
- Emotional and erotic.
This phenomenon can encompass any gender, that is, it can happen to both women and men. Although they feel that it is more common in women or more demonstrated by them, since they are not as visual as men and they need other stimuli to fall in love.
“For a sapiosexual person, remarkable intelligence is the main factor in the game of seduction. “
Psychiatrist Lister Rossel argues that the brain is the main sexual organ, even before the skin and genitals; on the other hand, sexologist Emma Ribas believes that seduction through intellect adds more quality to the relationship, as intelligence awakens a desire that soon translates into the physical level.
For sapiosexuais, this becomes a two-way sex game: they like surprises and the unexpected. They tend to give in to desire and know how to keep it through mystery, the latter is erotic intelligence.
Well, the attraction to intelligence can also carry some danger, especially in people who are unsure or who have low self-esteem, in these cases they can establish relationships of dependence for their devaluation of people with low self-esteem. They admire who they think is the smartest because they think he’s not.
“The genitals depend heavily on our brains. “
Social media gives more visibility, under new lexical paradigms, to concepts that have existed for a long time. According to sociologist Francesc Nuez, the search for labels to define relationships is not something new, but a human need to work with stereotypes and prejudices that guide us in social life.
In this sense, sapiosexual is one of the fashion terms to describe a circumstance that has always existed: sexual attraction by the intelligence of the other, although the term is new, the relationship between intelligence and mind as factors of attraction between people dates from the texts of the philosopher Plato, in 380 a. C.
Sapiosexais are seduced by words. They like to have quality conversations and stimulating dialogues that allow them to escape frivolity, finding love in each other, however, being sapiosexual does not mean that the person does not consider other parameters such as the physical or the personality of the other.
It is also possible that these people unconsciously interpret each other’s intellectuality as a safer and more stable relationship. Somehow, they associate intelligence with good determination and good protection in the relationship.
Sapiosexuality is another aspect to include in the other criteria that we use to choose who we would like to be with, decidedly, if we want to spend more time with someone, it is better that they add interesting conversations and can maintain mystery and desire. .
“Love is like a gradation scale that begins with the beauty of the body, then targets ideas and people who demonstrate privileged intelligence. “Plato-