VIDEO: Sapiosexuality (Xtra Rated for Intelligence)

Sapiosexuals are turned on by bookish people.

Sapiosexuality means a powerful sexual attraction to intelligence. People who gravitate to this channel are often sapiosexuals.

Librarians, teachers and professors or others associated with learning institutions are often targets of sapiosexual persons. In an anthology released a few weeks ago, called, The Sexy Librarian’s Big Book of Erotica, Bix Warden writes in the introduction how librarians are often featured in sexual fantasies. He agrees that the brain is the sexiest organ in the body, and says that intelligence is sexy. Though you don't have to be a librarian to be sexy, he states that librarians are often smart and sexy, read across many genres, and can converse on many different subjects.

According to Mark Banschick, M.D. in his article,"What Makes Something Sexy?” an individual’s personality is very important to sexiness. He uses Plato’s dialogue in The Symposium) as an example. The main character, Socrates, had no money, no position and no looks, but what he did have was charisma and brilliance. This is sure proof that the nature of relationships has not changed over the years. Thus, we can safely assume the sapiosexual draw to the opposite sex goes back more than 2500 years.

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