It took Nadia most of her life to understand her subtle but compelling feelings. In high school, she figured out she wasn’t heterosexual. Or homosexual. She knew she wasn’t asexual. It wasn’t until graduate school, when she worked on a team using a Cray supercomputer, that she finally understood her orientation - technosexual. She was attracted to high-performance computers.
She needed to keep it a secret - there was no way the rest of her team would understand. But she did allow herself little pleasures: perfume (she could only afford cheap stuff); silky work clothes; and soft, plush computer-shaped pillows.
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