Professor Poeschl and the Electric Lightning Polymath

Rarely will we find someone not turned on by intelligence, even if it is simply on a platonic level. Sapiosexuality is defined as a person attracted primarily to highly intelligent people and where IQ is considered the most important trait of a potential partner of whatever definition of gender.

This relatively new concept is found across the sexual spectrum, meaning that a typically straight person may be attracted to a partner of the same sex or vice versa, that a gay person may be attracted to a person of the opposite sex. Imagine how that adds some colour to our 72 LGBTIQ+ variables…

A political variable on homosexual intelligence in Canada from the ‘50s to the ‘70s had a herd following amongst psychiatrists who believed that it justified “queer fear” or “Lavender Scare” in mainstream society where shrewd gay men were considered as having a predatory and a security risk to society.

Some Canadian psychiatrists believed that homosexuality was contagious