Seven Historic Nerds Who Were Also Historic Players
Who says you have to have a flawless body, eyes that don't need huge glasses, and the brain of a clump of meat shaped to look like a human head in order to score a mega-uber-super babe? Some of history's greatest nerds, dweebs, dorks, and spazzes have made more than a few hotties' "bunsens" burn at least at 1,600 degrees Celsius. Here are the most brilliant nerds who made a real nomenclature for themselves with the ladies.
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7. Benjamin Franklin
This brilliant Founding Father who helped invent and create just about everything America holds dear from Constitutional statehood to electricity had a mind housed in a giant, pill-shaped head that topped off the frame of the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man. But that didn't stop women from all over the world from throwing themselves at him with the speed and force of a freshly fired cannonball. His early days in France were spent cavorting and carousing with scads of smart and stunningly beautiful women, all of whom unconditionally loved the man for his mind and other parts that I'd rather not think about. Even when he aged well into his 70s, he managed to attract the attention of women five times his junior using his genius charm and creative wit to woo them in ways we mere mortals can only dream. He didn't just write the book of love, he printed it...because he was also a printer by trade.
6. Albert Einstein
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You might not think that a guy with frizzy hair who sounds like the villain in every Indiana Jones movie could have a smoking hot girlfriend on each of the four hemispheres. However, Einstein had at least a dozen. The rock-star-famous physicist was a prolific letter writer and new letters released 20 years after the death of his daughter Margot revealed he has many sordid affairs and flings, most of which while he was still married to his second wife, Elsa. In fact, he didn't really pursue these women. He described their undying attention towards him as "unwanted," which either makes him the smartest man of all time or the dumbest man of all time. You decide.
5. Alexandre Gustave Eiffel
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The architect who gave the world one of its most romantic man-made spots (not counting the grotto at the Playboy Mansion or the world's entire fleet of car back seats) also made it his own romantic spot. The brilliant architect nicknamed "The Iron Magician" (I'm sure one of his mistresses came up with that one) and creator of the Eiffel Tower topped off his magnificent creation with a private love nest for his many sordid and sultry affairs. The room has since been opened to the public. To this day, no other gift shop in the world sells more Scotchguard and Febreze than the one set up for the tourists at the top of the Eiffel Tower.
4. Richard Feynman
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This Nobel prize-winning physicist could truly be called a Renaissance Man. His mind possessed an uncountable number of unique abilities from technical know-how that went into the creation of the atom bomb to quantum electrodynamics and beyond. He also had a sexual drive that could make a Louisiana politician seem as chaste as a Tibetan monk. He had a ravenous appetite for women. He hung out (no pun intended) with porn stars and strippers and developed ideas for his calculations on strip club cocktail napkins. He even developed his own scientific calculations for getting laid. More importantly, he accomplished something no other scientific mind has been able to do: make physics interesting.
