# Why are glasses sexy? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 20, 2008, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-glasses-sexy/438373 "2008-02-20T11:45:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-glasses-sexy/438373/21 "2008-02-20T21:45:46Z")
I personally think I look better without my glasses on. [On](http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f295/bedgyro/Matt.jpg). [Off](http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f295/bedgyro/Matt06.jpg). [It depends on the type of glasses](http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f295/bedgyro/IMAG0046.jpg). On girls, though, “cute” becomes “hot” with the addition of glasses. If they’re already hot, glasses don’t do much. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-glasses-sexy/438373/22 "2008-02-21T00:03:58Z")
This thread is making Dorothy Parker spin in her grave. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-glasses-sexy/438373/23 "2008-02-21T00:14:53Z")
[QUOTE=garygnu] I personally think I look better without my glasses on. [On](http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f295/bedgyro/Matt.jpg). [Off](http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f295/bedgyro/Matt06.jpg). [It depends on the type of glasses](http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f295/bedgyro/IMAG0046.jpg). On girls, though, “cute” becomes “hot” with the addition of glasses. If they’re already hot, glasses don’t do much. [/QUOTE] In your case, it doesn’t matter, 'cause you’re plenty cute either way. (Not flirting–I’m married, and way too old for you anyway. 🆒 ) ---
**Author:** ![Rascal\_s\_Mom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a698b9/32.png) [@Rascal\_s\_Mom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rascal_s_Mom)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-glasses-sexy/438373/24 "2008-02-21T00:23:30Z")
**Garygnu** , I am with **TroubleAgain**. You are hawt, with or without. And I am easily old enough to be your mother. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-glasses-sexy/438373/25 "2008-02-21T01:04:11Z")
Confidence. A woman with glasses is showing that she’s confident enough to wear them in spite of the fact that glasses are traditionally considered unsexy. And confidence, of course, is sexy. So there you go. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-glasses-sexy/438373/26 "2008-02-21T01:13:56Z")
[QUOTE=WOOKINPANUB] Interesting. I was just asking my guy why anyone would wear glasses in today’s age of contacts and lasek surgery if they had a choice. I don’t see them as sexy whatsoever(not saying that they’re _nonsexy_, just not a factor). [/QUOTE] Three reasons (and I’m a guy.) One, I really do look better with glasses. (Well, I don’t think I’m much to look at to begin with, but I really do look better with glasses.) Two, I’m scared of lasik. And three, I work in a chemistry lab 8+ hours a day and contacts are a bad idea in that sort of environment. It’s not worth getting contacts and getting used to wearing them just for the weekends. ---
**Author:** ![Rascal\_s\_Mom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a698b9/32.png) [@Rascal\_s\_Mom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rascal_s_Mom)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-glasses-sexy/438373/27 "2008-02-21T01:35:31Z")
Why aren’t you people posting pics? ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-glasses-sexy/438373/28 "2008-02-21T01:37:52Z")
[QUOTE=Rascal’s Mom] Why aren’t you people posting pics? [/QUOTE] Because my cat won’t let me put sunglasses on him long enough to take his picture. ---
**Author:** ![Rascal\_s\_Mom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a698b9/32.png) [@Rascal\_s\_Mom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rascal_s_Mom)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-glasses-sexy/438373/29 "2008-02-21T01:44:18Z")
Tell him Carrie says so. He needs to cheer me up. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-glasses-sexy/438373/30 "2008-02-21T01:48:59Z")
Because I’m wearing them. ---
**Author:** ![NunOfTheAbove](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@NunOfTheAbove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NunOfTheAbove)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-glasses-sexy/438373/31 "2008-02-21T01:52:46Z")
I often wear contacts and a partner who wears glasses is much more likely to have contact solution laying around their house than someone who does not. I also think it might be a scarcity thing. I never really found them all that attractive when I was in college and everybody (almost) had them. I then moved to Northern CA where absolutely nobody has vision problems and now I find them a lot more sexy. On a slightly related note, anyone have any idea why people in Northern CA have such good vision? Seriously, the only people I’ve met here the past 5 years wearing glasses were all from other places, or just wore fake glasses as an accessory. ---
**Author:** ![Rascal\_s\_Mom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a698b9/32.png) [@Rascal\_s\_Mom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rascal_s_Mom)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-glasses-sexy/438373/32 "2008-02-21T01:52:49Z")
Not flying. Post pics, post pics, post pics ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-glasses-sexy/438373/33 "2008-02-21T01:59:46Z")
I did, I did, I did ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-glasses-sexy/438373/34 "2008-02-21T03:35:26Z")
You can give all the credit to [Donna Reed](http://emp.byui.edu/raishm/films/mary.jpg). And also, [Donna Reed](http://www.nndb.com/people/702/000031609/reed6-sized.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-glasses-sexy/438373/35 "2008-02-21T03:59:18Z")
Okay, is it just me, or did the first one look like Gary Burghoff? I personally think I look a bit better in glasses, since they make my ears and brow ridges seem a little smaller. ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-glasses-sexy/438373/36 "2008-02-21T04:45:05Z")
I can’t find a good photo of me in glasses, so [this one will have to do.](http://picasaweb.google.com/nashiitashii/Natasha/photo#5124628423052520578) [This one’s even worse](http://picasaweb.google.com/nashiitashii/AdventuresInHairDye1/photo#5145367873776311234). [Here’s one without glasses](http://picasaweb.google.com/nashiitashii/Natasha/photo#5040070395187560306). I just don’t wear my glasses that often and I take crappy photos of myself. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-glasses-sexy/438373/37 "2008-02-21T04:54:05Z")
[QUOTE=lobotomyboy63] And Lisa Loeb, don’t get me started (where’s the drooling emoticon when you need it?)! [/QUOTE] Funny though, I’d pass Lisa right by [without the specs on](http://www.lisaloeb.org/noglass.jpg). They seem to be the only thing holding her looks together. I wonder if she leaves 'em at home when she doesn’t want to be recognized. ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-glasses-sexy/438373/38 "2008-02-21T05:10:08Z")
I thought I saw a picture of **lobstermobster** somewhere with glasses on. Teh Hawt. I can’t remember if it was live or ms paint. Either way, Teh Hawt. Come to think of it, it might have been **DiosaBellisima**. In any case, Teh Hawt. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-glasses-sexy/438373/39 "2008-02-21T05:18:56Z")
[Me.](http://www.sunspace.org/scott.jpg) (with glasses) ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-glasses-sexy/438373/40 "2008-02-21T06:39:43Z")
I don’t wear glasses, but I think I’d look cool with those rectangular black plastic hipster framed if I did, since I already shave my head and wear a short, neat beard. (I am a guy, BTW.) Women in glasses are extremely sexy to me, but I think I can trace it all back to the Baroness, the sexy villainess from G.I. Joe: [http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2006-23,GGLG:en&q=baroness&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi](http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2006-23,GGLG:en&q=baroness&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-glasses-sexy/438373.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-glasses-sexy/438373.md?page=3)