Online Love for Out and Proud Geeks

Aug. 14, 2007 — -- By day, 28-year-old Scott Josephson is an educational software writer. By night, or during any of his free time for that matter, he is a Trekkie.

In fact, Josephson's obsession with "Star Trek" has evolved to such a degree that he is now attempting to watch all the TV episodes, from the original version all the way through "Enterprise" — in chronological order. But "Star Trek" is not the only thing on Josephson's mind these days.

He is also trying to find a girlfriend.

"I am not doing the bar and club scene, so it is not that easy for me [to meet people,]" said Josephson in an interview with ABC News. "I have tried some dating sites with minimal success. I am just not finding that person unique enough to date me."

Fortunately for Josephson and the many "Star Trek"-loving seeking light saber-wielding/video game-playing among us, the answer may now be just a mouse click away. It's sweetongeeks.com, a new dating site that encourages its members to embrace the geek in all of us.

"I am absolutely a geek," said Josephson. "No question about it. You can put my name on a screen with geek under it, and I would be happy."

If Josephson's enthusiasm for "Star Trek" and science fiction weren't enough to make him the perfect candidate for sweetongeeks.com membership, his unabashed acceptance of his "inner geek" certainly does.

"We are hoping to create a bully-free zone where people can come and fly their geek flag as high as they want to," said Joyce Dales, who co-founded the Web site with her husband, Jeff. "Instead of just trying to hide their nerdiness, they can just celebrate it."

The Dales, who met on another online dating Web site, launched sweetongeeks.com because they believed — even on the Internet — the dating scene had become too image conscious.