The 10 Real Reasons Geeks Make Better Lovers
I saw this lil' list on the Sex & Games blog while writing up that IGDA Sex SIG gay opinion request I know you're all busy answering (ahem), but on second look, this list is cool enough to post on its own. Just on the merits of its opening phrase alone: "But you know what? Humorous Top-10 lists aside, geeks really do make the best lovers, for reasons that have nothing to do with adolescent ostracism or puppy-like devotion." Enough with that old saw. Why do we, the geeky, make red-hot lovers? Here are a few reasons, although you'll have to skip over to Wired to see the whole she-bang. He-bang. Whatever.
Geeks dig consensual role playing:
"Geek lovers combine a well-developed and oft-exercised erotic imagination with their physical technique. It isn't a big leap from "I'm a level-13 thief, evil-aligned" to "I'm the prison warden and you're the new detainee." Scientists and therapists alike claim that the brain is the most critical sexual organ; a geek's familiarity with fantasy arouses your mind even as the handcuffs -- or the bag of loot -- bring your body to attention."
Geeks get things done:
Geeks know all the shortcuts. They research your interests, send you surprise gifts, plan your perfect vacation, get the bills and grocery shopping out of the way, write to their mothers, and tease you mercilessly, all while pretending to work. And when you ask them to set up your home Wi-Fi or install a home theater, it's done quickly, expertly and without complaint.
In other words, geeks know how to get everything else out of the way so there's more time for lovemaking.
So for all you data-trenders, writers, codesters, librarians, bespectacled weirdos and other flavors of smart-hot, whip this out the next time some overtanned clone looks at you askance!
The 10 Real Reasons Why Geeks Make Better Lovers [Wired]
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Posted to Hot Stuff, Miscellany on 25 April 2007
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almost everybody knows geek love is hot.
because they love to study human anatomy.
(prostate ftw)
that's why my bf is also a mayor geek.
it's a shame he doesn't wear glasses.
but he can make a pacman scarf look good.
I disagree with most of the things on that list -- imaginary internet sex is lame (doubly lame when crudely-rendered avatars or embarrassing-looking animations are involved), I limit my roleplaying to a weekly tabletop rpg, neither I nor my boyfriend particularly care about using tech in any personal way beyond basic communication (or does playing with his Wii count?), and a significant number of geeks (including me) are incredibly lazy. I'd rather play video games or screw around online than research a guy's interests, send surprise gifts, plan a perfect vacation, get the bills and grocery shopping out of the way, write to my mother, etc., and my boyfriend and I get along so well largely because he has similar priorities.
In other words, much as I like being a geek and dating my own kind, it irks me when people post such a misleading depiction of geeks as lovers. There's a reason why we're commonly depicted as socially inept, and.. well... if I did even half of that stuff for a boyfriend, I'd probably be faking it and trying to get laid.
So please, if you're thinking of dating a geek, do it for the intelligent conversations and shared interests, not for his (or her) ability to fix your computer and coddle your Second Life avatar. That's just sad.
she must know a whole different set of geeks than I know. Saying geeks make better lovers is like saying squirrels know how to run an asylum. They may be good at storing nuts...not so good on the caring for them. The last geek I dated sent me love poems in binary code. B-I-N-A-R-Y C-O-D-E, people. It was kind of cool, but still I was like, "I am not a computer, dude." Hmmm...he did make me sit in a chair completely naked with a keyboard on my lap one time while...OMG. He wanted me to be a computer!
I am so starved for geek love that I switched teams for a geek girl. I don't even care which variety of geek they are.... science geek, trekkie, computer nerd, D&D player, compulsive Python reciter, or just an old gamer like me. I'll even take someone who's crazy about foreign cars. It's all good if they at least have the capacity not only for thought, but for passion about something other than busting a nut.
My attraction to bears developed, I think, because most of them were geeks when I got into the scene 15 years ago. Nowadays the bears I run into all want to talk about crap like Wicked and American Idol and P&P and it makes my pee pee soft. But my "type" hasn't changed, so if there are younger gay geeks coming into the scene, I won't even recognize them until they put on 20 pounds and stop shaving.
The worst of it is that most gay geeks nowadays seem to want to hide it.... not the fact that they're gay, but the fact that they're geeks. It seems to me that pretending you have a little brain is a lot like pretending you have a little dick.... except it's socially acceptable to have a little brain, apparently.
I would rather be with a geek of the "wrong" gender than be with a man who's a total adonis (adjusted for my tastes) but who turns out to be mundane as soon as he opens his mouth.
Maybe geeks aren't the best lovers for everyone.... but as long as we're talking about a coupling that lasts more than a few minutes, they're the only lovers for me.