Let me confess something: a good few years ago, I was a serious nerd. I was a geek; a basement-dweller. Not a mere recreational geek, either; I'm talking thick, often-fogged-up glasses, stack of comic books (though woe betide you if you called them that; they were graphic novels!), and a bag of many-sided dice for Dungeons & Dragons. The thought that anyone could find someone like me attractive would have blown my mind at the time.

Yet here I am now -- my glasses and stack of comic books a bit thinner, my dice a bit dustier -- and you know what? More and more people are casting speculative glances to the nerdy side of the fence. First we showed people that we can have style -- think back a few years to when heavy black glasses meant snickers and stares, not cutting-edge fashion -- and now we're showing people that we're damn sexy.

So why are nerds sexy? Well...apart from the trend of geek chic, it's two things: what we know, and what we're up for.

Geeks know stuff. The same impulse to seek out knowledge that made us the class swot also makes us well-versed in things that'll leave your head spinning, your cock throbbing, and your brain wondering what the hell happened. We're the go-to guys for knowledge of obscure sexual techniques. Even among my own relatively small, geeky circle of friends, there are lads versed in Japanese rope bondage, leatherworking, and special-effects makeup (and don't underestimate this one...think of how many fantasies you could fulfil with someone who can literally look like something out of your dreams, or your nightmares!).

And what about what we're up for? Well...a lifetime of being a bit of an outsider, with some esoteric interests, leaves you rather more open-minded than the average guy. Maybe it's just that open-mindedness, and maybe there's just a deeper streak of the deviant in geeks at large, but there's a high correlation between nerdiness and the enjoyment of the more...out there. All right, let me come out and say it: I've never met a geek that wasn't also a big pervert!

Not that we're lurking in our raincoats, dirty magazine in hand. We just enjoy things that are a bit...unusual. See the above list of geeky interests, and extrapolate from there. Now, what sort of fantasy scenario could a bondage expert, leatherworker, and special-effects artist cook up between them? Not to mention that most of us have a long-nurtured love for roleplaying. All those nights spent with our elf warriors have left our minds nimble and well-practiced in the art! So who do you think is going to be better at acting out your fantasies? The lad who's never had to be anyone except his own popular self, or the nerdy kid who's been a thousand different people in his mind?

So next time that you see a lad whose hotness is hidden -- or, depending on your point of view, being enhanced -- by glasses and a ragged old video game T-shirt, pause and wonder what sort of thoughts are boiling away in that big brain...and what sort of special skills he could bring to the bedroom!