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{{trope}}
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{{quote|Q: [[The Dog Shot First|Who shot first?]] [[Star Wars|Han or Greedo?]]<br />
A: [[You Need to Get Laid|Sleep with somebody.]]|''[[Ask That Guy With
If you are a nerd, then as far as fictional media are concerned, you have ''never'' gotten laid, very likely haven't gotten to first base, may have never ever stepped up to bat -- and quite possibly have never so much as wandered within a mile of the ballpark.
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Now, this does have some real life basis, in that some nerds and geeks do lack some social skills, and take up unusual interests as a way to fill the gap in their lives (or, more unfortunately, fail to develop social skills ''because'' of said interests).
This trope can apply to female nerds as easily as male nerds, but thanks to the [[Double Standard]], the males are far more likely to [[All Men Are Perverts|find unwholesome outlets for their unexpressed sexuality]], virginity notwithstanding. In fact, male nerds have just as much chance of being the [[Casanova Wannabe]] as any other type of male character. Some males (and a rare female or two) may try to [[Of Course I'm Not a Virgin|deny their virginity]], out of [[Sex
There is also a general perception that a nerd's level of nerdiness is inversely proportionate to their chances of losing their virginity, which is a big reason that [[Even Nerds Have Standards]]. It also means that some nerds will deny at least some aspects of their nerdiness.
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In non-mainstream works, this trope shows up less frequently, although some cases are deliberate aversions and some are just [[Author Appeal]].
If the nerds are the main characters, there is a high chance they ''won't'' be virgins by the end of the movie/book/first season of the show, because [[Nature Abhors a Virgin|virginity is a tragic flaw]] and [[Sex
Note this doesn't prevent a [[Nerdgasm]].
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* Implied in ''[[Dead Poets Society]]'':
{{quote| [[The Smart Guy|Meeks]]: I'll try anything once! <br />
[[Jerk
* Heavily averted in ''[[American Pie]]'': the biggest nerds (band geeks) are also the sluttiest.
* Also averted in ''[[Mean Girls]]''. There, the school has the sexually active band geeks.
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== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'' averts this. Aside from Sheldon justifying it with his [[Asexuality]], no one else in the group is a virgin, even if Raj has trouble with women (Because of a personality issue completely unrelated to being a nerd).
* Similarly, ''[[
* ''[[Supernatural]]'': Sam has been [[Freaky Friday Flip|body-swapped]] with a teenage boy and is looking through the kid's stuff. He finds a Star Wars T-shirt and comments, "Virgin."
* On ''[[The OC]]'', [[Hollywood Nerd]] Seth is stated to be a virgin at the beginning of the series, but it doesn't stay that way.
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* Averted with Rayne from ''[[Least I Could Do]]''. He is a huge nerd who also routinely sleeps with women.
** [http://leasticoulddo.com/comic/20050521 This strip] is a very deliberate aversion.
* The heroine of ''[[The Non
* Gary from ''[[Ménage à 3]]''. {{spoiler|At least until [http://www.menagea3.net/strips-ma3/virginnnnghhggnnn this] strip.}}
== Web Original ==
* [[Bum Reviews
** Averted with most of the TGWTG crew though. [[Doug Walker]] and his brother are both engaged, and Linkara, Spoony, and Lindsay have all been in long term relationships.
* Several [[Copy Pasta]] stories involve the poster bringing a girl who is very much into him back to his place only for her to see his nerdy interests and walk out.
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** Another example from this show involves a cutaway gag about finding a rapist at a Star Trek convention. The police ask the crowd to raise their hands if they are not a virgin. The only person who does so is told he is under arrest.
* The ''[[Star Trek]]'' episode of ''[[Futurama]]'' mentions that in Earth's past, Trekkies, after the show became a worldwide religion, were executed by being thrown into a volcano because it was "the manner best befitting virgins." Considering how many of the show's staff are themselves Trekkies, nerds or holders of advanced degrees there was a definite [[Take That Us]] vibe to the scene.
* There is a [[Cutaway Gag]] on ''[[Family Guy]]'' where a terrorist goes to heaven to get his "72 virgins", only to find a group of (male) nerds playing ''[[Magic:
{{quote| "OSAAMAAA!!"}}
* The Comic Book Guy in ''[[The Simpsons]]'' lost his virginity to Agnes Skinner when he was in his forties.
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== Real Life ==
* [http://www.gnxp.com/blog/2007/04/intercourse-and-intelligence.php A survey] showed that students at elite US colleges were far more likely to be virgins than the population at large (e.g., Harvard 41% were virgins, Princeton 44% and MIT 49%, versus 13% of college students at large.) Even 35% of grad students at MIT were still virgins! You could also find similar results by breaking it down by majors with high and low GRE scores for Wellesly students: "0% of studio art majors were virgins, but 72% of biology majors were virgins, and 83% of biochem and math majors were virgins!". The page also notes that this doesn't seemed to be entirely explained by the common rational of this being completely involuntary (though that seems to explain part of it) as MIT students (particularly the female ones) were also much less likely to have [[A Date
* The etymology of the word bachelor also seems to bear this trope out: since most people in university or apprenticeship programs were/are young, single and their studies did not grant much time nor resources to actively court someone, the term (which had it's school-based definition first) slowly became a synonym for any single male. In other words, they were too busy studying to date.
* This is much less true when it's Nerd On Nerd, especially now that the Internet makes us less isolated from each other. Many conventions are notorious for some people attempting to make the [[Free-Love Future]] a reality one hotel room at a time...
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