# Persons of spectacles - do ya take them off during the Act? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 21, 2001, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/persons-of-spectacles-do-ya-take-them-off-during-the-act/69686 "2001-06-21T21:05:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![MamaHen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c89c15/32.png) [@MamaHen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MamaHen)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2001, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/persons-of-spectacles-do-ya-take-them-off-during-the-act/69686/21 "2001-06-22T15:41:58Z")
TMI Time I always know when Hubby2Hen is in the mood. He comes into the room with his glasses off and he’s doing his “I’m going to get some” dance. The dance is really a bopping up and down wiggle that he thinks I find sexy. I actually think it’s so cute I give it up without a second thought. As for me, I always take my glasses off. Not only do I not want my glasses falling off and hitting Hubby in the face, I don’t want them to get broken if we get wild. Plus it just seems polite, leavng them on seems like your not really into the “deed”. Hubby2Hen is almost blind without his glasses on and this has proved for some rather amusing times. Once I was leaning over this half wall in our front room talking to my parents who had snuck in without warning. Hubby was upstairs and I called him down not mentioning my parents were there because they wanted to surprise him. Well he sees me leaning over the wall and I guess I was swaying which excited dear Hubby. Suddenly he’s behind me feeling my breasts and kissing my neck totally naked and without his glasses. I try to push him away but he thinks I am playing so he slings me on the floor and tries to fight my clothes off. About this time, my dad gets up, walks over to where we are and smacks Hubby hard on the ass. Hubby almost died right then and there. It was hysterical. Mom was laughing so hard she couldn’t talk, Daddy was torn between laughter and anger and Hubby had hidden himself in the bedroom and wouldn’t come out for over an hour. Needless to say he has learned his lesson, he always looks in the room now before taking his glasses off and attacking:) ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2001, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/persons-of-spectacles-do-ya-take-them-off-during-the-act/69686/22 "2001-06-22T17:05:06Z")
Where are Eve and Ike when you need a quote? I think it’s something like: Dorothy Parker: Men don’t make passes at girls who wear glasses. Ogden Nash: But a girl who wears spectacles may get her neck tickled. ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2001, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/persons-of-spectacles-do-ya-take-them-off-during-the-act/69686/23 "2001-06-22T17:24:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SuaSponte \* > \*\*A silly question from moi? Inconceivable! > \*\* You don’t really want me to answer that, do you? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2001, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/persons-of-spectacles-do-ya-take-them-off-during-the-act/69686/24 "2001-06-22T18:04:11Z")
Actually, I keep 'em on. I like to watch. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2001, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/persons-of-spectacles-do-ya-take-them-off-during-the-act/69686/25 "2001-06-22T18:12:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dantheman \* > \*\*Off. Way off. So far off I put them in another room, in a locked steel box, then bury the box under the floorboards. This way, while I’m in the middle of The Act, The Female doesn’t have to get my geek visage all over her pretty little face. (Ooh, that sounded weird, huh?) If I’m feeling particularly self conscious, I’ll put them in a box and mail the thing to Zimbabwe without any postage. Then I get them back in a few days. > > Then I can pump and bump and grind and moan and all that with wanton recklessness, the wind whipping through my remaining follicles, as I ride, ride, ride, like a revived Roy Rogers, imagining myself as a hopeless stud… > > \*\* What, no replies to me obviously witty, creative post? Ok, that’s IT! I’m no longer going to be funny with you… you… you PEOPLE! I’m gonna be totally serious from here on out. Starting tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2001, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/persons-of-spectacles-do-ya-take-them-off-during-the-act/69686/26 "2001-06-22T18:32:04Z")
While my mouth was where a mouth was made to be, my girlfriend suddenly closed her legs and broke my eyeglasses. Who should pay for them? It seems we have opposing views here. I say if she can’t control her legs she should at least warn me to wear a hard hat and safety glasses. ---
**Author:** ![Anniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cc9497/32.png) [@Anniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anniz)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2001, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/persons-of-spectacles-do-ya-take-them-off-during-the-act/69686/27 "2001-06-22T19:31:44Z")
Off they go, since I can see good in close distanse. ---
**Author:** ![Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2001, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/persons-of-spectacles-do-ya-take-them-off-during-the-act/69686/28 "2001-06-22T19:59:42Z")
Contact lenses are GOOD. I don’t even have glasses at my boyfriend’s place, so if no contacts, no glasses either. ---
**Author:** ![Mort\_Furd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Mort\_Furd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mort_Furd)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2001, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/persons-of-spectacles-do-ya-take-them-off-during-the-act/69686/29 "2001-06-22T20:13:04Z")
On, off, whatever. When the going gets going, I could give a damn and care less about my glasses. The only time they absolutely HAVE to be removed is when I go muff diving. The temples would poke my wife in the thighs otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![kang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/d6d6ee/32.png) [@kang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kang)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2001, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/persons-of-spectacles-do-ya-take-them-off-during-the-act/69686/30 "2001-06-22T20:24:48Z")
Being nearsighted (I can see clearly for upwards of a foot away without the glasses), I had never considered the opposite in regard to sex. I mean, you see folks holding the newspaper at full arm’s length to read it. The image of someone stepping back to get a view of the repast before them, then carefully zeroing in on the memory of that… it made me laugh. As for sex, just plain old sex, yep, off they come. However, apparently as the only representative of kink to post here, I have to say, that I do leave them on for sexplay. I have absolutely no depth perception without the glasses, so, to put it bluntly, without them I can’t tell if the hot wax I’m dribbling from the candle is going to hit where I want it to. And, needless to say, whips are out of the question while working blind. And, yes, once in a while, when the sexplay goes from play to actual sex, I have been too caught up to remember to take them off until some unfortunate movement got rid of them for me. Ce la vie. ---
**Author:** ![todaystomsawyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/59ef9b/32.png) [@todaystomsawyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/todaystomsawyer)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2001, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/persons-of-spectacles-do-ya-take-them-off-during-the-act/69686/31 "2001-06-23T16:39:04Z")
I’m with Monfort, I like to watch the penetration, see myself going in and out…🆒 ---
**Author:** ![SuaSponte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@SuaSponte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuaSponte)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2001, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/persons-of-spectacles-do-ya-take-them-off-during-the-act/69686/32 "2001-06-24T00:06:29Z")
**mamaHen** , BWAHAHAHAHA! **todaystomsawyer** , thanks for interpreting **Montfort’s** post, I had assumed he meant the TV. Sua ---
**Author:** ![Father\_Pacelli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@Father\_Pacelli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Father_Pacelli)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2001, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/persons-of-spectacles-do-ya-take-them-off-during-the-act/69686/33 "2001-06-24T00:40:57Z")
Depends on the act. If it’s vaginal, they stay on. I’m damn near blind without them. If I’m giving some young wench a little oral delight, they come off. No sense breaking them. If I’m getting that oral delight, they stay on. That simple… [thread hijack] Do deaf people remove their hearing aids during the Act? [/thread hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2001, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/persons-of-spectacles-do-ya-take-them-off-during-the-act/69686/34 "2001-06-24T08:04:13Z")
Major TMI Alert. Ahh-ooo-gah! Ahh-ooo-gah! I leave 'em on (which puts me in the minority, apparently). We usually engage in some, um, light bondage, me free, her tied. I wouldn’t be able to see what I was doing if I were unspectacled. Yeah, they can get greasy and smeary, but I’ve learned to cope. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2001, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/persons-of-spectacles-do-ya-take-them-off-during-the-act/69686/35 "2001-06-25T02:48:45Z")
I only leave them on if I am driving. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2001, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/persons-of-spectacles-do-ya-take-them-off-during-the-act/69686/36 "2001-06-25T02:54:35Z")
Off. I foud it difficult to be a wanton sex goddess with my glasses on. I also take them off while I act. The spotlights just cause a glare. ---
**Author:** ![Fatwater\_Fewl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4491bb/32.png) [@Fatwater\_Fewl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fatwater_Fewl)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2001, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/persons-of-spectacles-do-ya-take-them-off-during-the-act/69686/37 "2001-06-25T07:48:42Z")
Off. Even when I’m alone. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Zero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2001, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/persons-of-spectacles-do-ya-take-them-off-during-the-act/69686/38 "2001-06-25T14:01:56Z")
Yes. ---
**Author:** ![Tygr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df788c/32.png) [@Tygr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tygr)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2001, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/persons-of-spectacles-do-ya-take-them-off-during-the-act/69686/39 "2001-06-25T15:47:42Z")
If it’s REALLY spontaneous, the glasses might get left on. Just 'cause I’ll forget to take them off. I do like to see what’s going on - visual stimulation is quite enjoyable to me, and if my face is more that six inches away from the action I can miss out on a feast for the eyes. Conversely, if we’re “in the clinch”, totally wrapped up together, then I usually close my eyes and pay attention to the input (so to speak) from my other senses. After all, lovemaking is also a feast for the ears, the nose, the mouth, the skin… But if there’s the merest suggestion of a possibility of a hint the perhaps there’s a chance of getting lucky, I’ll make sure to have my contacts in well in advance. ---
**Author:** ![camkorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9c0ed/32.png) [@camkorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/camkorn)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2001, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/persons-of-spectacles-do-ya-take-them-off-during-the-act/69686/40 "2001-06-26T13:05:42Z")
me and my boyfriend both being speccy people tend to get caught if we don’t take em off. so they get flung off asap! 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/persons-of-spectacles-do-ya-take-them-off-during-the-act/69686.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/persons-of-spectacles-do-ya-take-them-off-during-the-act/69686.md?page=3)