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Isn't that a neophile?---A xenophile, I think, would be someone who craves the alien even after it has become familiar. A neophile, by contrast, would crave the commonplace but unexperienced more than the familiar alien. <P> Of course, it's possible to argue that "alien" and "unexperienced" are the same thing, but I think it debases both terms. Sex in zero-g, for example, will only be "unexperienced" once, but may well remain "alien" to earth-acclimated humans for quite a few, um, sessions. <P> An example of the opposite: going to a football game is certainly not "alien" to my native culture, nor to my experience in the sense that I possess mental scripts for the whole process. However, it is something I have never personally experienced, and thus as a devout neophile I have a certain desire to do so. This desire, of course, is tempered by the fact that I <B>have</B> been to a baseball game, and did not find it particularly enjoyable. But it's an open question whether the decrease in enjoyability is the result of less novelty now that I've been to one kind of game, or the predicted lack of enjoyment of a football game based on related experience.

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