Sentence:  ... Women of the time were constructed to be the <WSD>technosexual</WSD> Other, robot-like & programmable, as in Fritz Lang's film "Metropolis" (1927). Other images of women as sex machine in film & literature of the time are described. ... 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Technologically sexual: sexual in a robot-like (for example, programmable) way.