1. Description of the concept of sapiosexuality

Sapiosexuality is a love orientation based on IQ standards. It will be influenced by the high IQ of others to produce sexual attraction and even arousal. sexual desire. This is a kind of preference in mate selection, which refers to paying more attention to the other person's IQ and brains in terms of body shape, appearance, economics and other conditions. Sapiosexuals will be attracted to each other's knowledge, and then develop love and sexual desire. As a professional concept in psychology, sapiosexuality, in the context of online popular culture, is closer to an aesthetic preference for “smart people” and their related characteristics. In the minds of young men and women who admire "sapiosexuality", the most romantically attractive representatives are the contemporary Sherlock Holmes in "Sherlock" and the chess queen Harmon in "The Gambit". These young people also tend to pay more attention to the IQ level, cultural literacy and depth of thought of their partners. In comparison, appearance, personality and economic conditions are secondary. But this doesn’t mean that so many people really put their love partner’s IQ first.

2. Why is it popular?

There may be five reasons:

1. People nowadays get married later and later. When they are young, they pay more attention to external factors such as appearance. As they grow older and With the increase of experience, people pay more attention to internal factors such as thoughts.

2. People nowadays are generally highly educated and have higher spiritual pursuits. Therefore, the status of the cultural "ideological and sexy" factor has increased, even higher than the biological "appearance" factor.

3. Sapiosexuals consider the overall quality of the other person far more than appearance and money, and care more about the moment of spiritual communication with the other person. This inner-pursuing way of thinking is gaining more and more attention in modern society. Much recognition and pursuit.

4. With the advent of the Internet age, the speed of information dissemination is accelerating, and people’s ideas and values ??are constantly changing and updating. Sapiosexuality, as a new love concept and mate selection standard, is more likely to be Accepted and disseminated by the public.

5. The presentation and beautification of sapiosexuality in film and television works allows more people to understand and identify with sapiosexuality, thereby making it more widely disseminated and popular among the public.

The popularity of sapiosexuality not only reflects the changes in people's ideological concepts and the improvement of value pursuits, but is also closely related to the development of the times, changes in information dissemination methods, and the influence of film and television culture.