An Alternative to Sapiosexual: Noetisexual
Updated Definition and Expansion:
Noetierotic— ability, and sometimes desire, to be erotic with someone who’s noetiscape I have explored, regardless of gender or sex
Noetisexual— only consider being sexual if mentally connected, not attracted to you; it’s possible because I trust you, a physical expression of what’s going on in our minds; I’m attracted based on access intimacy, shared perspectives, and the ways your mind works or the ways you create and hold space for me or others, or to the shape of your mental landscape; my experience of attraction is different due to my neurodivergence
Noetilinking — sharing and cocreating noetiscapes; building worlds together, expressing oneself fully with another in ways not limited to or by sexuality and romance. I want to know you (your noetiscape) in particular from my unique perspective, and sex may be one of the ways in which I come to know you, in that it can reveal aspects of your beliefs and cares, but sex isn’t required or necessary, simply a possibility
The colors — Black relates to the hidden, the secretive and the unknown. It relates to how the way one’s mind works is ambiguous, a mystery.
White relates to the openness that one is looking for; to learn more about that mystery that is one’s…
