In these stupid and ludicrous times when the dumbest amongst us are far too comfortable making up words to describe obscure and obscene sexual preferences, I’d like to mention a big one of mine, today’s Word of the Day: sapiosexual.

It is a word, intelligent reader, that quite simply dances on the tongue like a fine wine, matured in the oak barrels of intellectual allure.  In a world obsessed with appearances, a sapiosexual finds more tantalizing thrills in the cerebral gymnastics of minds at play.  Behold:

A sapiosexual is someone who finds intelligence the most sexually attractive feature in others.  The term is a blend of the Latin root “sapio,” meaning “to be wise” or “to taste,” and “sexual,” because, frankly, what’s more seductive than the occasional Latin flex?

Stanley chuckled into his drink.  “Listen, Lou…you’re preaching to the choir here.  I’ve been a hard-core sapiosexual my entire life…well, except for that few decades in the like the 80s and 90s when I was just really into tits.  But other than that, I’ve always been a big brains guy.

N.P.: “All I Want Is You – Bonus Track” – The Mission