Would you date a girl with glasses?

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Glasses can ruin your chances if they're terrible, but double your chances if they're just right. In general I think girls with glasses look more attractive, not less, but I guess that only really illustrates that most girls are really good at choosing well. So yeah there is some pressure there, sorry.

It is worth getting professional help with the fit, with your first pair. But thereafter I would buy online, simply because you can get two pairs online for the price of one pair from a high street opticians. And you will probably need two pairs to always have something that'll work.

I normally dress fairly casually and my glasses suit that. My emergency back-up pair also happen to look a bit more formal, which means they're also good for interviews, weddings and the like.

Contacts can be tricky, I know people who wear them nearly all the time, but I just can't.

Give us pics of the sort of glasses you are thinking of getting.
Maybe even make a poll?

Can she cook with glasses.

Most glasses for women are good-looking.

My girlfriend wears glasses sometimes & I think she looks cute with them but she's cute without them as well. I used to wear glasses sometimes. I have a rare low vision disorder & glasses only help some & they also make my close vision worse so as a result I really only wore glasses for work, school, & going to the movies. I wore thick coke-bottle glasses when I was a kid(the eye docs did not give me a choice about that) & I was teased a bit for it but I was teased for LOTS of things then & being very nearsighted even with those glasses was probably a major factor. If I coulda wore more normal glasses & saw OK with them I would of been teased a lot less about my glasses & vision. I don't know what kinda vision issues you have OP but the laser eye surgery stuff is fairly common nowadays & some insurances cover it. My mom had that over 10 years ago cuz she was having to wear bifocals which were a pain for her. She got her distance vision corrected so she can drive & do lots of things OK without having to wear glasses but she has to wear reading glasses for up close stuff. The laser stuff is not for everyone thou. My vision disorder can not be corrected that way so I'll very likely be stuck with my issue the rest of my life. Glasses are kinda less common nowadays than they were when I was a kid since the laser eye surgery stuff became available & has a good track record. However glasses are trendy nowadays for certain groups like hipsters & some in nerd type culture. Sometimes women wear fake glasses to be more attractive to the hipsters & nerds. It's fairly common for women to wear fake glasses in porn now. Sometimes women wear fake glasses in real life because the women are kinda nerdy/geeky/dorky & want to meet guys who are the same way. I don't get why a woman would need to wear fake glasses to be attractive to those types of guys since those types of guys tend to outnumber women who are like that & those types of guys can struggle to get women if they are not successful in the technology, science, & medical fields. At least that is the stereotype about those guys but I've seen various women online admit to wearing fake glasses to be attractive to certain types of guys & I never got their reasoning, it did not make sense to me.

You can't spunk on a girl's glasses if she doesn't wear them.

When I first got glasses I asked the optometrists this question and they said it's not the case. Google also seems to agree:
https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying- ... ight-worse

There may be some opposite effect in children, in that if they are not given the correct prescription it may negatively affect their eyesight long term:
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/2014 ... r-eyesight

As to the original question, I think it would be pretty sad for humanity if something as simple as someone's glasses (or whether or not they wear them) becomes a reason to date them or not. My personal opinion is that if that was a factor for anyone, you're better off not dating them anyway. Glasses generally do not alter your attractiveness that much in either direction, and I'd recommend focusing your attention on people who like you for you, not just one minor aspect of your physical appearance.

I had that conversation with optometrist as well, and he told me the same thing he told you. However, he didn't make any convincing arguments, he just gave me a handout to read. The title of the handout started with "common misconceptions..." which made me think "okay I will see some convincing arguments here". But no, I didn't see any convincing arguments there either. They just stated supposed misconceptions and then stated supposed facts. This only convinced me even further to disagree with them.

One other "misconception" they listed is that its bad to read in the darkness and then they said that reading in the darkness is just fine. My knee jerk reaction to that was to think that maybe they want people to screw up their vision reading in the dark so that they can then get glasses and pay them money (which is also why they want people to wear glasses). I really wasn't conspirational about that topic before I read that handout, but when I read it I couldn't help but think of it this way.



It doesn't let me read it unless I register. Can you copy and paste it or something?



That is surprising. The only thing I can think of is maybe children without glasses would squint, and squinting hurts your eyes even more than glasses. Well, as an adult, one can make conscious decision not to squint and, in this case, not wearing glasses would probably help.

I mean here is a common sense reason why it would. The reason vision goes bad on the first place is that a person spends too much time reading. So eyes get too used to looking nearby and get adjusted to it. So then by wearing glasses you are encouraging the eyes to continue to stay adjusted to that regime, but by stopping wearing glasses you are encouraging your eyes to adjust back to looking at far away.

I realize that the positive effect of not wearing glasses might be small, because it is too late. But, as they say, better late then never. One can always grasp at straws and hope that maybe, just maybe, its not quite so late. But the more one waits, the fewer straws are left to grasp on. So even if stopping wearing glasses won't help, at least your consciousness is clear that you did your best. And then who knows, there are always some remote chance it might help.