Illustration: Emily Flake

I’ve dated all types of guys—lawyers, actors, entrepreneurs—but the best sex I’ve ever had wasn’t with any of them. It was with…wait for it…a computer programmer.

That’s right. A geek!

“It’s not generally realized that geeks are the best catches,” crows the dorky-and-proud dating site Geek 2 Geek. It claims nerds tend to consistently appreciate their mates, don’t get caught up in status and are averse to “bad habits” like, say, cheating. As such, they “have much longer, more stable and happy relationships.”

And hello, don’t forget—if they’re not already Casanovas in bed, they have nothing against reading a manual. Or eight.

Since falling in love with the captain of the high-school debate team at the age of 16, I’ve dated enough geeks to say for sure that snagging one is the smartest thing you can do (aside from actually becoming one).

“Nerds won’t leave you for another woman,” explains one Yale-educated editor, a self-described gigolo nerd (gerd?). “They’ll only leave you for the next update of OS X…or Windows Vista…or PS3. Or a Wii.”

“We can regale you with stories of trials, tribulations and ultimately triumph from high-school math competitions,” he adds. That’s hot. “And you can get us new glasses. Everyone loves new glasses.” Birthday present, check.

“If you didn’t date us,” he insists, “you’d never learn that fish know their social strata, or about new battery technology, or that China’s divorce rate was reported as double because of a simple counting error.”

Oh yes—and, he says, nerds are “better hung than you ever imagined, and precise to the millimeter.” You don’t say…

So why are geeks such good lovers? According to my friend Cindy, a girl geek (she majored in math), “They have to be!”

Some guys rely on their looks. Others on their wallet. Geeks just focus on you—they’re hyperaware of your needs, of your likes and dislikes, of the way you smile when they bring you flowers (or, yeah, fix your backup system).

“Geeks work it between the sheets,” she says. While it sounds like a College Humor T-shirt slogan, she insists, “It’s just true.”

There are other benefits to dating nerds. Never underestimate how hot it is to watch your man code your website. Plus, as one geek told me, “We’re interested in things, and we’re interesting. Besides, intelligence and a sense of humor are the only truly durable human qualities.”

He then forwarded me spam he found particularly funny. It wasn’t.

Okay, so maybe I won’t move to Silicon Valley just yet.

E-mail her at julia@timeoutny.com.