front cover -- Asperger Meets Girl: Happy Endings for Asperger Boys -- FOREWORD BY HUGH JONES -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- 1 What Problem Am I Trying to Solve Here? -- 2 A Nerd's Eye View of Human Sexuality -- 2.1 Idea 1: The space of possibilities -- 2.1.1 Plotting some points in the space -- 2.1.3 Swinging -- 2.1.2 Old-fashioned romance -- 2.1.4 Student fantasy -- 2.1.5 Coming up roses -- 2.1.6 Slippery when wet -- 2.2 Idea 2: The conventional games -- 2.2.1 The conventional male game -- 2.2.2 The conventional female game -- 2.2.3 And? -- 2.2.4 Revisiting the extracts -- 2.3 Idea 3: Relationship space -- 2.3.1 Graphs of relationship space -- 2.3.2 How much do you love me? Quantitative attributes of relationships -- 2.3.3 Subjectivity of relationships -- 2.3.4 Intermission -- 2.3.5 Defining the centre -- 2.3.6 Why can't people just say what they mean? -- 2.3.7 The extracts revisited (again) -- 3 Things to Try -- 3.1 The collusive relationship -- 3.1.1 Why so slow? -- 3.1.2 What does this 'collusion' involve? -- 3.1.3 Where does it get you? -- 3.2 How sex joins on to real life -- 3.2.1 Sensuality -- 3.2.2 Attention -- 3.2.3 Power -- 3.3 Strategic preparation -- 3.3.1 Get a body -- 3.3.2 Get a persona -- 3.3.3 Get a look -- 3.3.4 Your fellow men -- 3.3.5 Platonic women -- 3.3.6 Good persistence and bad persistence -- 3.4 Tactical preparation -- 3.4.1 Tactical goals -- 3.4.2 Times and places -- 3.4.3 Your fellow men (again) -- 3.4.4 Look (again) -- 3.6 No, actual contact -- 3.6.1 Confidence -- 3.6.2 Decisiveness -- 3.6.3 Herself in particular -- 3.6.4 Colluding again -- 3.5 Contact -- 3.5.1 Staring and personal space -- 3.5.2 The art of apology -- 3.5.3 Conversation -- 3.5.4 Your feelings, considered from a tactical point of view -- 3.5.5 The last mile -- 4 Afterword -- 5 Appendix: Some supplementary thoughts -- 5.1 Theoretical context.

5.1.1 Philosophy -- 5.1.2 Psychoanalysis -- 5.2 Cartesian diagrams of the space of possibilities -- 5.2.1 Old-fashioned romance -- 5.2.2 Swinging -- 5.2.3 Student fantasy -- 5.2.4 Coming up roses -- 5.3 Suggested para-academic research -- 5.3.1 Para-academic? -- 5.3.2 Numbers for the graphs -- REFERENCES.