[Ads-l] ADS-L Digest - 21 Sep 2019 to 22 Sep 2019 (#2019-248)

[GEOFFREY NUNBERG]

> On Sep 22, 2019, at 9:01 PM, ADS-L automatic digest system <LISTSERV at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> wrote:
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> From: ADS-L automatic digest system <LISTSERV at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Subject: ADS-L Digest - 21 Sep 2019 to 22 Sep 2019 (#2019-248)
> Date: September 22, 2019 at 9:01:15 PM PDT
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> There is 1 message totaling 19 lines in this issue.
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> Topics of the day:
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>  1. sapiosexual
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> From: Stanton McCandlish <smccandlish at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Re: sapiosexual
> Date: September 22, 2019 at 3:37:13 PM PDT
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> I've seen "sapiosexual" used reasonably often at online dating sites for
> about 5 years, though what people mean by it varies from "no interest in
> anything physical" to "intelligence is a big turn-on for me" (in the latter
> sense, usually paired with another identifier like "bisexual" or whatever).
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> The weird one to me is "asexual" to mean "not interested in sex", as if it
> didn't already have a well-established definition.
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Didn;’t Woody Allen already cover this in “The Whore of Mensa”? https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1974/12/16/the-whore-of-mensa

Geoff



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