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Cheaters website votes Elon Musk as world’s second ‘sexiest geek’

By , IT in government editor
South Africa , 11 Aug 2014

Cheaters website votes Elon Musk as world’s second ‘sexiest geek’

Infidelity website Victoria Milan says a number of its women users have voted South African born technology billionaire Elon Musk as the world’s second sexiest 'geek'.

Online dating website Victoria Milan caters for “married and attached people seeking confidential affairs”. Victoria Milan claims it has four million members worldwide in more than 33 countries.

And Victoria Milan's ‘sexy geek’ survey was made up of a survey of 7,685 male and female users.

25% of Victoria Milan's women users who were surveyed agreed that Musk is the second sexiest tech tycoon. Musk is the CEO and CTO of SpaceX and CEO and chief product architect of Tesla Motors. He was also an early investor and co-founder in PayPal.

Meanwhile, over 56% of female users chose 29-year-old Mashable chief executive officer Pete Cashmore as their top tech-geek 'fling'.

Also included in the list are Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer and co-founder of Facebook, with 9% of votes, and Larry Page co-founder of Google with 8% of the votes .

Apple's chief executive officer Tim Cook had the least amount of votes with only 2%.

Also, only 41% of those surveyed said they found technology geeks attractive, while 59% said they didn’t.

“This data shows that people love technology, but that stereotypes about the socially-awkward 'tech guy' or 'geeky gal' are still very prevalent,” said Sigurd Vedal, chief executive officer and founder of Victoria Milan, in a press statement.

Vedal added, “We think it is very interesting that the common conceits of men choosing young women and women looking beyond appearances seem to have been bucked: our female users gravitated heavily towards the youngest, and arguably the most conventionally handsome, male 'geek' on the list, while men looked more at maturity and position. This shows that traditional views of gender roles and expectations continue to evolve in the internet era.”

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