[Ads-l] sapiosexual

Mark Mandel markamandel at GMAIL.COM
Sat Sep 21 17:53:06 UTC 2019


When I'm feeling cynical I call our species just plain "Homo sap".

MAM

On Sat, Sep 21, 2019, 12:32 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> At first I thought it meant some one who prefers sex with Homo sapiens.
>
> JL
>
> On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 12:28 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > Not to be confused (or is it?) with “saepiosexual”, from “saepius”, ‘more
> > often’
> >
> > > On Sep 21, 2019, at 8:30 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sapiosexual
> > >
> > > JL
> > >
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