Why Geeks Make Good Lovers
One of the Universal Truths that lie just beyond the fabric of modern society is the axiom that geeks, along with nerds and other peoples who overinvest in intelligence but boast underdeveloped social skills, make the best lovers. Once people realize this, the sexual revolution that will sweep through western culture will make the seventies look like the fifties, and I’m not talking about wider pants. The reasons why geeks are unparalleled as lovers are simple and many:
Geeks don’t sleep around. Geeks, through their higher IQ and therefore greater understanding of the tragedy of human condition, know that the dice only seem to have more sides on the other side of the table. Hence, they instinctively stay loyal to their lovers through thick and thin. Their social skills are also not well developed enough to support an affair, and frankly, geeks generally aren’t quite sure how they ended up with the lover they have attracted. When you date a geek, you know the geek will be yours until you are done.
Geeks are good at the things they try. When’s the last time you met a geek who didn’t have some secret skill just simmering below the surface of a simple-seeming life, honed in the wee hours of the night? It could be hacking, playing video games, or the ability to insert and remove those stupid computer power plug things from drives without cursing or breaking a finger. Let sex become their new favorite late-night hobby, and you know that a geek won’t quit until he or she has learned how to hack into your brainstem through specific genitalia interfacing in parallel with general dermal and oral bonding.
Geeks are not interested in status. Geeks became geeks because they chose to spend their time doing things that would not necessarily make them popular with everyone else in school, like sports and fashion. The ability to resist peer pressure is important to a geek. This means that a geek is more interested in their or your happiness than looking good to others, which will come in handy when either (a) you need attention, in any sort ranging from the nurturing to the lascivious, and also, because both of those things are not necessarily unorthagonal dimensions, any combination of the two, or (b) you need to be rescued because it is the climax of a teen 80’s movie. Or both.
Geeks haven’t formed bad habits. After years of serially dating lots of other women, many socially successful guys have become too confident to be intimate, think of women only for sex, and don’t have any intention of letting what in their minds is “just another girlfriend” enjoy the last spring roll. Let us not even pry into the diabolical, dark, twisted, and depraved mind of the girl who has serially dated many men. None of this is true of the geek, however. The lack of past romantic partners allows the geek to approach lovers with the zest of the neophyte. Geeks are not full of romantic confidence; however, once coaxed from their emotional holes like tame bunnies, they are eager to please and enjoy their newfound relationship.
Geeks can concentrate. Geeks can focus their energy on one task with the intensity of a hunting cheetah. Granted, the task they are focusing on may have more to do with hunting orcs with a +1 Sword of Piercing rather than hunting gazelles with claws, but the fact remains that a geek, once set upon a task and given Mountain Dew, becomes a tireless slave to their goal. Put a six-pack of Dew on the bedside table and a geek between the sheets, and you have found yourself one relentless lover. When’s the last time all night actually meant all night? When’s the last time you were with someone who, if they needed more of the night, knew how to get it?
Geeks have excellent finger dexterity. Geeks roll dice. Geeks play video games. Geeks flip pages in books. Geeks type a lot, and use characters like ~ and ^ and | that no one else has any use for. Geeks use calculators in postfix notation. As a result, a geek knows how to use his or her fingers to greatest possible effect. Whether you have a button that needs pushing or a joystick that needs joy, a geek is the person for the job.
Geeks have imagination. Once you have found your amazing lover, you wouldn’t want things to become boring. That is where geeks prove their real worth. Replayability is important to the value-conscious video-game playing geek, and this translates to relationships as well. Wouldn’t you want to date someone who has created a Quake 3 mod? Wouldn’t you want to date someone who has written steamy Everquest fan fiction involving elven incest? Wouldn’t you want to date someone who wished they were Morpheus rather than someone who wished they were Barry Bonds?
There are plenty of other reasons why geeks are the best lovers around, but don’t just take my word for it. Find the nearest sexy geek and coax that person into asking you out, even if you have to do so using instant messanger. Remember: the only non-sexy geek is a single geek.
Note: I wrote this for another website back when I still did that kind of thing, back in the heady, young days of 2004 when the only thing that wasn’t going unrequited for me was my singleness. Tons of girls wanted to requite that. Anyway, I need to mess with some spreadsheets right now, so this is what you get today. Happy Valentine’s Day plus two.
February 16th, 2007 at 10:48 am
Ha. I know why I’ve dated so many physicists, mathematicians and programmers.
Seriously, that was a lot of concentrated truth. You just forgot the great humor.
February 16th, 2007 at 10:52 am
Haha, thanks. I mean, we all experiemented with different things in college.
February 16th, 2007 at 10:59 am
Great post. I wandered over here from dating dummy and really enjoyed. Post is true. That’s why I married my geek and we created version 2.0 I recommend geeks to all my girlfriends!
February 16th, 2007 at 11:27 am
I’ve ‘dated’ a good bit, but it’s definitely the geeks that are more up for a ‘relationship.’ Although I do enjoy roping myself a bad boy now and then, it’ll probably be a geek that I end up with…
February 16th, 2007 at 11:40 am
Ingenious!! Must. Find. Geek…
February 16th, 2007 at 11:53 am
You, sir, have drafted my manifesto. Now if only people would read it…
February 16th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
Another XKCD lover! I love it even though I was a liberal arts major (and, true to form, don’t understand the complicated mathematics) :P ;)
I gotta say, when I saw the title of your post I was a little sceptical but you’ve convinced me. So, how do I sign up and where do I find these mega-lover geeks?! :)
February 16th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
I’ve heard some of them play frisbee.
February 16th, 2007 at 3:10 pm
LOL…we geeky types certainly can concentrate!
February 16th, 2007 at 10:02 pm
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February 17th, 2007 at 5:20 pm
I have sworn off geeks. When you break up with them, they can hack into your blog.
February 17th, 2007 at 9:42 pm
So true. I
February 17th, 2007 at 10:41 pm
I need to find me some geeks in Boston.
February 17th, 2007 at 11:53 pm
Found you through Dani’s site.
Great post. You throw the gauntlet down to all non-geek lovers out there to raise their game to our level!
February 18th, 2007 at 7:13 am
@Browneyedgirlie: Boston is full of good-looking cyclists.
February 18th, 2007 at 11:45 am
Where are they? I’ve had a difficult time finding quality men these days – apparently, I’m looking in the wrong places.
If you know where the good ones are, by all means, point me in their direction!
February 18th, 2007 at 3:09 pm
Actually, most guys I really met there were gay artists, but well…
Can’t say if the cyclists were “quality men” (great expression) since I didn’t really talk to them, but at least I saw many good-looking ones. Maybe it’s just the combination of a 3-day beard and a bike.
When I was there cyclists used to greet themselves, so you maybe can try that ;)
February 18th, 2007 at 4:12 pm
Oooo…I’m a sucker for facial hair. It’s my downfall.
Although, it’s tough to find many cyclists this time of year – everyone is trying to navigate the ice-encrusted sidewalks without spraining or breaking something.
I’m a fan of spring and summer – when I can break out my flirty sundresses and sandals, and the men are out in full force in cargo shorts and faded Red Sox caps. This girly girl is a sucker for a sexy, scruffy man in a Sox cap…
February 18th, 2007 at 4:52 pm
haha that sounds good to me :D
sorry, I forgot about the hard winters in New England. It’s truly no fun to bike when it’s snowing.
February 18th, 2007 at 5:34 pm
Ha! I’m almost convinced. However, regarding point 1, insecurity begets unfaithfulness, which is irrespective of geekiness. I’m just saying.
February 18th, 2007 at 9:07 pm
I’ve dated nothing but geeks and I can tell you from experience, being able to find the derivative of a variable is not nearly as important as being able to find the clitoris. From now on, I’m only dating outlaws.
February 19th, 2007 at 8:44 am
Anon~
if you need an outlaw, I just stopped dating one. I’ll hook you up.
February 21st, 2007 at 1:16 am
Now, now, Anonymous, you don’t understand how the geek works. You can’t just expect him to magically know where the clitoris is – education is vital.
February 21st, 2007 at 11:26 am
You forgot to mention the potential down-sides.
1. Some geeks have sub-optimal personal hygiene, and do not brush, floss, and bathe frequently enough. Of course, some geeks are very tidy geeks.
2. Some geeks are Aspergers-like, and perserverate on narrowly defined bands of interest. If you’re just not that into their particular geeked-out set of interests, some geeks can be rather poor company. Of course, some geeks are exactly the opposite, so this is nowhere near pervasive.
3. Some geeks have poor social skills, are not perceptive about non-verbal social cues , and tend not to notice things about their girlfriend, that their girlfriend would like them to notice, like that it’s her birthday, or that it’s your 1 year anniversary of the first time you held hands on the Subway home from a movie, and things like that, or that she’s frowning ever so slightly at you and wants you to ask her what’s bothering her.
4. Some geeks have no self-esteem. I experienced this one personally. As a geek with low self esteem myself, I have willingly entered into a relationship with a woman I had nothing in common with, and admired absolutely nothing about her, nor was I even attracted to her. I accepted her advances because I felt I deserved nothing, and that nobody would want to be with me, just because of particular things about me. This dooms a relationship. Make sure the geek you select is capable of being picky and rejecting people he doesn’t like, or you may find out later that he really isn’t into you at all, but he will definitely accept any and all female attention that is offered, because he is, in a word, desperate.
I am not saying even that any of the above are common, or frequently the issue, just that people are individuals, and many geeky individuals will have one of the above issues that may put you off.
Warren
February 21st, 2007 at 11:59 am
I confirm about education. Do not forget that our weak social and dating skills have left us wanking more than often, which makes us shooting pretty fast.
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February 21st, 2007 at 12:56 pm
If only a local bar had a “geek night.” We could then start to try to test you hypothesis.
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February 21st, 2007 at 1:11 pm
I’m a geek and a man whore so I don’t know where you came up with this tripe. And I’m terrible in bed.
February 21st, 2007 at 1:14 pm
Me (a Linux-and-web-programmer geek) and my girlfriend (a plays-video-games-and-draws-anime geek) just celebrated our one year anniversary on Feb 16th. Best year of my life….. I think you’re dead on with this article.
February 21st, 2007 at 4:23 pm
Well done on that copy and paste job.
Geeks make good lovers – Tue Apr 20 2004 at 20:39:33
http://everything2.net/index.pl?node_id=1532839
February 21st, 2007 at 4:24 pm
Oh, I missed your original comment, sorry!
February 21st, 2007 at 6:23 pm
wicked: Yep, I wrote that for e2. I kind of wanted to get it posted here at some point, which I think is okay since posting content to e2 does not give up any rights to the IP (I checked). Sorry it was weird to see it again.
I don’t think I’ll repost anything else from my e2 days, though.
February 21st, 2007 at 7:40 pm
“…or that she’s frowning ever so slightly at you and wants you to ask her what’s bothering her.”
Or sometimes they (and by “sometimes they” i mean “i”) will notice, but refuse to get drawn into that and so they ignore it.
If you want to talk, i’ll talk. But i’m not going to play some “If you really love me, you’ll ask me what’s wrong” game in the interests of proving my worth. You can keep that sort of passive-aggressive testing away from me, because i’ll fail it proudly every single time.
(I’m totally guilty about the rest of the stuff, though. I barely remember my own birthday, let alone anything else…)
February 21st, 2007 at 8:09 pm
“Wouldn’t you want to date someone who has written steamy Everquest fan fiction involving elven incest?”
Err… no. I’m not even a geek, but I’m sure I speak for them everywhere when I say, what are you talking about? I know there’s a certain sexyness in a lot of nerdy comic book things and certain games, but elvin incest? You went too far….;)
February 21st, 2007 at 8:11 pm
Geeks are not interested in status, women are. That’s why geeks will never get laid (with a hot chick). Cheers.
February 21st, 2007 at 9:06 pm
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February 21st, 2007 at 9:26 pm
I’ve been married to my geek for almost five years and we’re working on the beta version of Spawn 1.0. Everything you said is absolutely true – especially the bit about the geek’s unfailing loyalty. You did forget, however, that living with a geek means putting up with things like a fiber channel SAN in the corner of the basement Ha!
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February 21st, 2007 at 11:35 pm
My fiance and I are both geeks, but I only really because I started dating him. Perhaps we’re not as geeky as described in this article, but it made me laugh anyway. :-)
Thanks.
February 22nd, 2007 at 1:33 am
Our vibrant geek comunity on http://freenationfoundation.org desperately needs more females. Join Us, Find a great geek and elope to an Island.
Another good place to look for geeks is on World Of Warcraft, make sure you do an age verification before commiting to a 12yr old.
February 22nd, 2007 at 3:52 am
Heh, I think I saw this back in 2004 when you first posted it – it seems familiar – but it is still a fun read. And bonus points for the XKCD link. ;-)
Don’t forget geeks are often good with our hands. We’re handy around the house, and we can handle all the A/V gear – and enjoy it. :-)
Mist 1 – Only the unethical, immature geeks. While I may have played around with, uh, unauthorized access shall we say, back in college, I would never violate someone’s personal information. It just isn’t ethical. As an IT Director I can access pretty much anything at work – everyone’s email, files, IM messages, etc. I don’t just because I know it isn’t right. You need to find an ethical geek. :-)
Browneyedgirlie – Oh, I *know* there are a lot of single geeks in Boston and Metrowest. (I live in Worcester and work in Marlborough.) You have the entire 128 Corridor of High-Tech companies packed with geeks. I’m sure you can find one. ;-)
Anonymous – You just need to find a geek who has geeked out on sex, and/or educate them. Some geeks know quite a lot of about anatomy and what to do with it.
Warren – 1-3: Yeah, there are geeks, then there are the otaku or similar level geeks who Do Not Play Well With Others. The ones who give geeks a bad name. Geeks can be better about important dates though – that’s what PDAs are good for. Never forget a date – put it in your Treo. :-) 4. A lot of geeks have self-image issues, I’ve been there too. A lot of that is because society long poked fun at the geek, and we absorb that.
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February 22nd, 2007 at 7:46 am
You can find some geeks here :D
February 22nd, 2007 at 10:54 am
geek i łóżko…
Why Geeks Make Good Lovers. Od zawsze wiedziałem, a teraz mam na dodatek naukowe potwierdzenie!…
February 22nd, 2007 at 11:35 pm
This is great and so true! I know I
February 23rd, 2007 at 10:56 am
wow, this post sure was popular.
you have definitely opened up my eyes to geeks now….
although, i did date this one semi-geek in college. he cheated on me. so not all geeks are good geeks.
but they do have their advantages……excellent post. thank you for educating your female readers. :)
February 23rd, 2007 at 12:51 pm
“3. Some geeks have poor social skills, are not perceptive about non-verbal social cues , and tend not to notice things about their girlfriend, that their girlfriend would like them to notice, like that it’s her birthday, or that it’s your 1 year anniversary of the first time you held hands on the Subway home from a movie, and things like that, or that she’s frowning ever so slightly at you and wants you to ask her what’s bothering her.”
Hmm, I thought that was all men.
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March 7th, 2007 at 3:56 am
There are only 10 types of people – those who understand binary, and those who don’t.
I got my first Console, an Atari 2600, at the age of 5, typed in my first lines of Basic by the age of 8 and installed Borland C++ 3.1 aged 12, but could use Assembler only for about one year, because I had no extended memory in my machine.
Today I am 25, a Diploma Computer Scientist and Linux Server Administrator at a University, secret graphics artist, I can type faster than many people read, play Tetris in Death Mode for the fun of it and am an undying romantic with a weak spot for poetry, that appreciates music for it’s mathematical beauty, geeky by nature.
I know exactly what this article is about, but I seem to have incredible compatibility issues with most mainstream motherboards… Although the hygiene part is not the problem, I wash every day (even my hair!) and know the definition and use of terms like peeling, body lotion, after shave and Pantene Hair Repair, though none of them is digital. Maybe the Interfaces I want them to implement are too precise in their declaration, because of the heavy super Interfaces they extend. Often they fail a considerable amount of my checkstyle and Unit tests and in most cases they don’t come with a development repository or debian packages for a simple update. Yet what I need is very simple:
public HappyGeek wishComeTrue() {
Geek you = new Geek();
me.love(you, Time.INFINITY + 1);
you.love(me, Time.INFINITY + 1);
you.marry(me);
me.addToFamily(you);
Iterator children = you.getChildIterator();
while (children.hasNext()) {
Child newChild = children.next();
you.giveBirth(newChild);
me.love(newChild, Time.INFINITY);
me.addToFamily(newChild);
}
me.makeHappy(me.getFamily());
if (you.isHappy() && me.isHappy
&& you.getTetrisScore()
March 8th, 2007 at 3:50 am
I have had my geek now for 11 years (discovering him before they became trendy). He has so many skills! Like the ones mentioned above, he is great with everything, computers, cars and womens anatomy. A little socially inept, but who cares. When geeks get together, they come into their own.
They make beautiful children and love to teach them all sorts of useful stuff, fortunately neglecting football scores and skills.
March 8th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
I’m happy with my geek, going on five years. Can’t wait to get married. Yes, you’re completely right. Geeks do make the best parter. He’s my best friend and my sweetheart.
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March 14th, 2007 at 10:03 pm
I happen to be one of these geeks but I’ve gone down a bit of a different path… I’ve given up on trying to find a good woman and I’m just waiting to run into her randomly… I’ve also been scouring through information on how to please her when i do… i DO happen to know where the clitoris is and the g spot and know about multiple orgasms and several other… enjoyable things… to spend time doing before after or during sex… I’m also not just looking for sex… i happen to be looking for someone to just be able to talk to for an hour or 3 without being severely annoyed or bored out of my skull… it’s not the topic or the intelligence of the conversation that matters… it’s 100% personality… if you want to find one of these guys the one thing you HAVE to do is keep thier minds running faster than they can keep up with… doesn’t matter how just keep them distracted from the fact that they are who they are and keep them focused on the idea that you are there in front of them fun and happy to be there with them for whatever reason and don’t give them a chance to withdraw… my biggest personal problem has been as a few people mentioned here self doubt… if given time i will actually start listing what’s wrong with me rather than think about how to respond to you… so next time you find yourself looking at one of these guys if you do try just flat out ambush him… after about 30 minutes of shell shock i can assure you you’ll have him all to yourself and he won’t know what just happened but he’ll be trying not to screw it all up…
March 14th, 2007 at 10:21 pm
i am a geek inside, no girl and virgin still
am a loser
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March 19th, 2007 at 2:32 am
bring single and a virgin doesn’t make you a loser (to aLja3d)
March 21st, 2007 at 7:36 am
What about female geeks… they do exist….
and in my experience, the male geeks are normally a bit more focused on their internet images of women so they don’t even see a female (excluding model-beauty) geek in front of them. Sigh.
March 21st, 2007 at 9:27 am
Lora: there’s nothing gender specific in the post. I heart female geeks too!
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March 22nd, 2007 at 5:43 am
Why geek make good lovers…
Sì, lo ammetto, mi è capitato di leggere Pinkblog. Ma a dirla tutta, è sempre divertente per un individuo di sesso maschile leggere articoli rivolti al mondo femminile.
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March 22nd, 2007 at 7:21 am
I’m a geek. Doesn’t necessarily mean I haven’t developed pro-social skills. But just because I have a high nature of interpersonal intelligence doesn’t mean that I can’t be intelligent in an intrapersonal perspective.
March 22nd, 2007 at 4:28 pm
I loved this article. As a happily engaged geek to an accidentally discovered undercover geek I completely agree with the points you make. Geeks are thoughtful, loyal, funny and can provide excellent oral stimulation and continuous sexual gratification when given the right training and advice. I also thought mrdowsts lines of code very evocative and possibly a new form of machine poetry.
April 21st, 2007 at 7:11 pm
I just broke up with a geek after 4 great weeks of amazingly great sex and attention. In the end it came down to the fact that his house smelled like cat pee. EVERYWHERE. I love cats and have four of my own but the cat pee thing told me he couldn’t take care of himself. When he asked me to move in after dating 4 weeks I had to go.
I am all about geeks now. Hopefully the next one will not live in a sty.
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June 4th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
oooh yesss
nice fingers!
i´ve dated a geek and it was bad!
he didn´t drink or smoke weed!
blhak!
kiss* plim! plur! cosmic stuff!
June 7th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
ive dated a geek he was cool and then his jockes were lame
but he cute♥ love ya always
keep the peace
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August 6th, 2007 at 8:28 am
Nice piece! I would have to agree with you with regards to geeks — I’m currently with one. I’ll be spreading the love of this little article (linking back to this ditty of course)… ;)
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November 14th, 2007 at 6:50 am
i play rugby im fast n tank but i play games does that make me a geek or nerd? i dont reckon but wtf wat r u gonna do?
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December 4th, 2007 at 8:25 pm
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAHAHAH this is the greatest.. atleast to me :-/ lol I really enjoyed reading it.
December 19th, 2007 at 10:34 pm
Wow. Love the post. o.o
And we -ARE- good in the sack. ^.^ Though we need to be tought.
I still don’t know where the hell the G-spot is…
Q.Q
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March 8th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Finally people are starting to realise how good geeks can be. I agree wholeheardetly with your article.
April 24th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
It cracks me up that people sit around recommending geeks as “must date” material. Granted, a geek myself I’m rahter biased towards other geeks, but that’s largely because I need someone that I can have an animated talk with that actually *understands* what I’m saying, and isn’t just nodding their head trying to be polite.
I think it is incredibly superficial to just “try geek dating on for size.” Get involved with someone because you have something in common with them. Trust me, as appealing as geek dating might seem to you – if you don’t enjoy endless conversations about the soon-to-be-released Robert Jordan novel, why Terry Pratchett is pure genius and an excellent social commentator, or why Monty Python is comedy for the smart masses then leave while there is still time. Also, cliche as it is, if you don’t have appreciation for gaming and/or see hours upon hours of WoW, Magic, or D&D as a waste of time than you are completely barking up the wrong tree. Trust me, for the most part that’s not something you learn to appreciate it. Either take it or leave it, and if you would rather “leave it” I feel I speak for most of geekdom when we say don’t let the door hit you on the way out. We’d rather take that, thatnmonths/years of disdain for our chosen hobbies when we don’t have anything bad to say about the interests that you choose to entertain.
April 24th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
MrDowst – awesome post. I’m not a coder, but even I got that :)
July 1st, 2008 at 12:57 am
I love geeks. You cannot find a soul-mate in a bad boy, no one could make a better boyfriend or husband then a geek.
July 18th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
I love and adore this blog. :)
Browneyedgirlie…..we are having a geek singles night in Boston July 19th at 7pm at Pandemonium Books in Cambridge! So do not despair.
Geek boys are so worth it.
Thanks for the wonderful blog.
July 21st, 2008 at 1:46 am
not just geeks, but pretty much anyone who gets knocked down by the popular guys.
Like bass players… bass players need some love.
They’ve got good fingers too.
August 25th, 2008 at 11:37 am
So this is the way it had to end… with her on top of another man. Well, let\’s see the instant replay!
September 4th, 2008 at 7:06 am
Hey, I still want to be a dick not a geek …
October 10th, 2008 at 10:29 am
After many long lonely years of wandering I am now dating a geek. Probably the best thing that has ever happened to me. I am an artist and a bit of a flake, and he keeps me down to earth. Geeks f*cking rule! I highly recommend dating a geek to any woman who is looking to be loved and fulfilled in every way.
November 29th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Have u been spying on me?!?!
December 2nd, 2008 at 8:34 pm
I must agree with you on all counts. I have been married twice. The first husband was the “bad boy” and horrible in bed. My current husband is a geek and OMG, the orgasms are so good they scare me!
Once you go geek…OH GOD!!!
December 23rd, 2008 at 1:42 am
so true, i love my geek :]
February 1st, 2009 at 4:45 am
So true.. Everyone should have their own geek! I’m greedy and have my geeky boyfriend who i love lots, and my geeky best friend! And not they’ve turned me geek too….
April 16th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
I’m not so sure I agree with the “poor social skills = geek = monogamy” thing. I know plenty of geeks–male and female–who have great social skills, but simply have a better idea of what they want in a partner than to try forcing themselves into relationships with people they have little in common with. They’ve had a decent number of partners, and a good number of the geeks I know are successfully polyamorous–meaning that they have multiple long-term committed relationships.
I will agree, however, that the geeks I’ve been involved with, at least, have been intelligent enough to not fall prey to the usual bad habits you mentioned.
April 17th, 2009 at 1:57 am
They earn well tooo..much more compared to any other type of guys
April 28th, 2009 at 6:32 pm
Obviously, not one of you have ANY sense of reality. The West is blatantly anti-intellectual and so the term ‘geek’ is derogatory for anyone who is intelligent as though it’s a horrible disease. Survival of the strongest is the way to go. Being socially aware and confident is so much better once you have some form of athletic ability. Not to mention it’s good to work out the body as well as the mind. Lastly, sweat from working out releases a natural scent that drives women wild!
May 29th, 2009 at 8:33 am
A recent study of 2000 men and women back up your claim.
Article found here:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/article2439786.ece
Excerpt from the article:
An anonymous study of 2,000 British men and women concluded that out of all jobs, computer geeks make the best lovers.
They were found to be the most selfless in the sack, the most adventurous and more likely to use love gadgets.
Seventy-eight per cent of techies that were questioned also claimed that sex toys were part of their love life.
And a further eight out of ten tech workers said that sex toys played an important part in their sexual relationships
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Eighty-two per cent of IT workers also claimed to consider their partners sexual needs above there own, the highest result from all of those asked.
And if you think a perfect bod means a perfect romp, think again.
Those participants who worked in the fitness industry were found to be least likely to use sex toys, with just three in ten using them regularly.
And they were also found to be the most selfish lovers too.
When asked whether they considered their partner’s needs above their own, only 41 per cent said yes, the lowest score of all.