Sophie Marceau says she is sapiosexual: she is turned on by intelligence, wisdom or charisma

In a world in which the ways of understanding sex and defining oneself according to each other’s tastes are more diverse every day, now a new way of achieving sexual desire has appeared; the sapioxesuality. It is a filia (sapiophilia) that the French actress has just made fashionable Sophie Marceauwho has been publicly recognized as sapiosexual, that is, who feels erotic and sexual attraction to people who have great knowledge and are wise (or wise).

The 56-year-old French writer has also defined her “philia” during the recent presentation of her latest book of poems, stories and fables entitled The Underground. Sophie became famous in the 1980s for her appearance in the two-film series, la boum, from the director Claude Pinoteauin which she played a teenager who knew love while going through the separation of her parents.

The French actress became better known internationally with her participation in films such as Braveheartstarring Mel Gipsonplaying Elektra King, the bad bad guy who tried to assassinate James Bond (Pierce Brosnan), a Anna Karenina in the 1998 film, or because of his relationship with the actor from The immortals, Christopher Lambert.

As reported by the media Upday Newsthe interpreter, who has always been very reserved when it comes to talking about her private life, has labeled herself with this new term, which refers to a way of feeling attraction that, deep down, has existed Always among humans.

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Although it is not exactly a sexual orientation, it has now become a whole trend that can guide desire in both heterosexual and homosexual and bisexual people.

The sapiosexuality attributed to Marceau, who is also considered an intellectual due to her literary activity, refers to being sexually attracted to a person’s intelligence, charisma or knowledge, regardless of their physique. It is not that this is not valued, but that it passes into the background, and what really produces sexual arousal and falling in love is the intelligence (also emotional or social) or the wisdom of the other person.

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This is an attraction that occurs, for example, between students and their teachers, and apparently it is more common among women than among men, for a matter explained in the book by the Israeli writer, Yuval Noah Harari titled Sapiens: from animals to menwhere he ensures that “women are aroused before and during sex thanks mainly to the senses of hearing and touch, while men do it more through sight.”

Social networks have also helped “philia” to spread, since now people get to know each other more through writing than physically, with messages and reasoning of all kinds, which lead to knowing each other much better intellectually.