It would have surprised many of Tanya's friends and colleagues alike that she had not had very much romance in her life. Like many very attractive, very smart women, she suffered from the "guys don't ask me out" problem. The truth be told, many guys, although dying to make love to her, rarely had the nerve to even ask her to lunch. "Too afraid they'd get turned down", is what she'd remind herself, any time a guy she was attracted to wound up with another woman. "Their loss." In the hours that she spent alone, while many of her friends enjoyed romance and sex, she kept company with math textbooks. What had started out as a way to kill time not spent with men had turned into an amazing success story, as she developed a keen insight into some of the deepest problems in math. She learned to live for the pursuit of mathematical knowledge and her own physical fitness. However, she could not completely submerge her sex drive, and so, as she did in the break times during her study sessions, she indulged herself in her own body, tracing rings around her nipples, massaging the insides of her legs, losing herself in her own orgasm.