"Sapiosexual" is a relatively new word that refers to a person who is erotically attracted to intelligence.

NOW relocated to Paris after years living in Co. Kildare, husky-voiced chanteuse Marianne Faithfull speaks enthusiastically of a little-known entry in the lexicon of love. The 65-year-old says: 'There is this fantastic new term and I really hope it exists. It's "sapiosexual"… It means being attracted sexually to people's minds as well as their bodies. And there was a lot of it around in the Sixties, let me tell you.'

Here's an e-mail that I sent out a while back on what I mean by sapiosexual….

I want an incisive, inquisitive, insightful, irreverent mind. I want someone for whom philosophical discussion is foreplay. …I decided all that means that I am sapiosexual….I invented this term while on too little sleep driving up from SF in the summer of '98.