Glasses Are Sexy - TV Tropes

"I could wear the glasses again..."

— Lilah Morgan, Angel, "Habeas Corpses"

• During the 90s, Richard Golden advertised his "Sexy Specs".

• In Ace of the Diamond, sports journalist Akiko Ogawa has a fetish for baseball players who wear glasses, and two of the players she considers the most attractive are star catcher Miyuki Kazuya of Seidou, and ace pitcher You Shunshin of Akikawa.
• Ai Kora: Yukari, who even has a fangirl of her own with a glasses fetish. The mangaka even devoted a whole chapter to this topic: when Yukari feels insecure about her looks, thinking that her glasses make her ugly, the aforementioned fangirl takes her to a cafe full of glasses fetishists, who make her model different outfits and glasses and repeat that the glasses enhance the look. They even teach her 'glasses techniques', like peering over the glasses, etc. Of course, when she meets the protagonist and tries it out, he doesn't notice, because his fetish ain't her glasses.
• Durarara!!: Anri Sonohara is somewhat of a mix between Stoic Spectacles and Meganekko, though Masaomi has said at least once that he finds her glasses particularly attractive.
• The 2014 Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works] adaptation includes a scene where Rin, Shirou and Saber go shopping and Rin tries on glasses, getting this reaction from Shirou.
• Nyaruko: Crawling with Love! has a scene where Nyarko makes her love interest Mahiro try on a pair, believing he doesn't understand "the power of the glasses" after her attempt to invoke the Meganekko look on him failed. When he does, it causes Nyarko (and Hasta) to collapse to the ground, drooling and muttering "The glasses...the glasses..."
• In The Prince of Tennis, Yuushi Oshitari has perfect vision. However, he invokes the trope via wearing Purely Aesthetic Glasses... because he wants to look smarter and more attractive to girls.
• Discussed in a Princess Princess omake where the author reveals that Harue is surprisingly popular among readers, and remarks that his glasses is probably the reason for his popularity. The strip ends with other two student council members (plus Arisada) wearing Purely Aesthetic Glasses to enhance their own appeal.
• Parodied in Private Prince. The lead girl Miyako is a meganekko, and during a party she catches the sight of lead boy Will in public. The next day, dozens of girls show up in front of Will wearing glasses as they believe he has a fetish for cute girls with spectacles, which leaves him rather... surprised. (He actually has a fetish for big-chested girls... and Miyako happens to be VERY well-endowed.)
• In Rising × Rydeen the first time Takara meets Aria he's stunned over how beautiful she looks and starts noting her attractive features, her glasses being one of them.
• Ristorante Paradiso: Nicoletta's mom has a thing for guys in reading glasses and only hires Waiters who wear them, though she doesn't mind if they are Purely Aesthetic Glasses.

• The Atom apparently has a glasses fetish. His first impulse upon meeting Oracle in person is to make a pass at her. He later offers the explanation that living in a college town has conditioned him to hit on girls in glasses.
• In Empowered, Emp's Hot Librarian costume includes a pair of glasses. Thug Boy finds them very hot.
• In Archie Comics' Josie and the Pussycats, Melody gets glasses, and for some reason, attracts even more guys (if that's even possible), Which prompts Josie and Valerie to pretend to be blind in order to get glasses themselves.
• Wallace Wells from Scott Pilgrim openly has a fetish for glasses; he even seduces Stacey's new boyfriend on their first date simply because he has glasses.
• In Mystique's solo series, she demonstrates how her shapeshifting extends to creating accessories like glasses. Her handler's response upon seeing her in glasses is to declare that if he was into evil women, he'd be in love with her.

• In Chapter 43 of The Command Quarters, Megatron finds a glasses-clad Starscream to be very attractive, even though Starscream insists that his glasses are not a sex prop.
• Has a Type (2022): A lot of people think that Jermaine finds glasses attractive because many of his former crushes wore glasses. Some people have even accused him of favoring and purposely seeking out girls with glasses.

• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: Flint is notably more attracted to Sam when he realizes she's a closet nerd who was Obfuscating Stupidity. When she puts on her giant Nerd Glasses, that seals the deal.

• Love on the Run: Antoine goes in to a judge's office to get his final divorce decree and is startled to find that the judge is a very good-looking woman. As the judge puts on her glasses to read the paper, Antoine remembers being in bed with his wife Christine (the woman he's divorcing at the meeting) and specifically asking her to put her glasses back on.
• In Resident Evil: Retribution, Luther gets distracted when Alice puts on the Tactical Glasses.
• The Station Agent: Finn's friends tell him to buy the librarian glasses so they can play Hot Librarian.
• The Truce: Laura, the pretty young new hire in the office, sometimes puts on glasses for reading. Suarez, a vaguely sleazy coworker, notices this, gets too close to her at her desk, and starts making uncomfortable comments about how the glasses really suit her and she should wear them all the time. Martin promptly tells Suarez to shut up and get back to work, which makes a good impression on Laura (and is the start of their romance).
• Wonder Woman (2017). Steve Trevor tries to dress Diana in contemporary 1910s fashion to make her look unobtrusive, and fails completely. He tries putting glasses on her, which only ends up making her even more eye-catching.

  Etta Candy: Really? Specs? And suddenly she's not the most beautiful woman you've ever seen?

• Fujoshi Kanojo: When Y-ko finds out that the protagonist wears reading glasses, she insists that he put them on and squees over them. In the manga adaptation, her character expounds at length on the appeal of guys in glasses.
• Glasses Girls:
  • The first time Sarah wears Jermaine's glasses in "Middle School Meganekko," he thinks they look good on her and bring out her eyes. He doesn't actually tell her this out loud until they go on a date later in the chapter.
  • The first time Lauren wears Jermaine's glasses in "Sophomore Year Specs," he thinks she looks cute in them and feels like they make her eyes pop. He doesn't actually tell her this out loud until they go on a date later in the chapter.
  • In "Junior Year John Lennons," Jermaine tells Emily his glasses look good on her and make her look even prettier than she already is after she worries that they make her look old because of their bandmate Luke telling her such before.
  • In "Senior Year Spectacles," Jermaine tells Ashley his glasses look good on her after she asks him how she looks in them the first time she wears them.
• Glasses Stories:
  • Many of the people in Jermaine's life think, or used to think, that he finds glasses attractive because of both his pet peeve of people wearing glasses that aren't theirs and the fact that many of his crushes and friends wore glasses. Another reason is that he apparently once told his father during sixth grade that he finds glasses attractive, although Jermaine doesn't remember saying that.
  • As for Jermaine's side, there have been times he wished he continued wearing glasses full-time past fourth grade so he could share them with his female friends, he secretly brought his old glasses to school during his second semester of seventh grade and shared them exclusively with several of his female classmates and friends (in one instance, he even told one of said friends that his glasses enhanced her beauty), he masturbates to both self-imagined fantasies and his real memories of people wearing the glasses of others and has done so since middle school, many of his Original Characters are Bespectacled Cuties, he's watched (and rewatched) plenty of glasses-themed YouTube videos about girls and women wearing glasses (either their own or those of others), he briefly liked and followed a Facebook page (which is no longer up) called "Glasses is Best Girl" that depicted girls or women wearing glasses (either their own or those of others), and he created a drawing of himself chasing a young bespectacled white woman through a desert. At the end of the first chapter, he understandably suggests he really is turned on by glasses and just doesn't want to admit it.
• Glasses Stories Redux: In "Dreamer View Specs Redux," Jermaine tells Brandi that he feels like his glasses enhance her beauty.
• Grimoire's Soul: In Kesterline glasses are seen as something erotic, especially on Chatelaines like Ceyda.
• Tokyo Demons' Sachi went without glasses in the first volume, but he was forced to start using them again when he was away from school due to one of his friends getting kidnapped by the Core organization. Protagonist Ayase clearly approves of the spectacled look, and from then on he openly wears them. They also become a point of attraction for him both In-Universe and out.
• Tough Love (gelefant): Both the Luv Monsters and many of the other people in Jermaine's life think Jermaine has a thing for girls/women with glasses because several of his crushes wore glasses.

• Angel. In "Apocalypse Nowish", jealous over Wesley's attraction to the geeky Winifred Burkle, Lilah Morgan waits for him in his office dressed in Girlish Pigtails and Nerd Glasses. As they're ripping off each others clothes to have sex, Wesley interrupts their passion to insist she keep the glasses on. He still breaks up with her in the next episode, despite Lilah's offer to wear the glasses again.
• In an episode of The Big Bang Theory, Penny puts on glasses to see if Leonard will find it attractive. He does.
• Bones:
  • "The Jewel In The Crown" has a Unwanted Glasses Plot when Booth gets diagnosed with a temporary eye condition and needs glasses. But he ends up changing his opinion on them once Brennan confesses she finds him sexy with glasses on.
  • Bones has to borrow an elderly woman's glasses once (there's been a murder on a plane, and they're the only magnification she can get), and a stunned Booth asks her to roleplay a Hot Librarian. She doesn't understand why.
• Dollhouse: Apparently, Topher finds Bennett's librarian-glasses-on-a-chain extra attractive.
• Gilmore Girls: When Lane gets contacts, her boyfriend Zack can't articulate how less attractive he finds her. Thankfully, he eventually gets over his shock, and Lane alternates between glasses and contacts without further comment.
• In The Office (US), Pam wears her glasses for one episode because she couldn't wear her contact lenses that day. Kevin immediately expresses that he loves women wearing glasses and lets Pam know, asking her if she can scold him for returning library books late.
• One Life to Live: A certain assistant DA always wore glasses but eventually admitted that he had 20/20 vision. He had started wearing them in law school because he wanted to be taken seriously but kept wearing them because he found that women loved them.

• Matt Osborne's "I Want a Girl with Glasses". See it on YouTube, here.

• Fran Gerard, the first Playboy Playmate to wear glasses in her pictorial, actually wore frames without lenses.

• Red Panda Adventures: In "Barton's Charm", the Red Panda discovers that Kit wears glasses when reading for long periods, such as doing research in the newspaper archives, to avoid getting headaches. Kit, Action Girl that she is, hates wearing them so much that she completely ignores the Red Panda's attempts to compliment her and tell her he likes them, something she would otherwise be all for hearing as a part of their relationship is her being clearly attracted to the Red Panda and teasing him.

• Serena Deeb played Paige Webb in Wrestlicious, and the commentator sighed that it was a shame she couldn't wear her glasses while wrestling.
• Liv Morgan wears glasses when not performing in the ring, as mostly shown in her social media selfies. Most fans agree that they definitely add to her sex appeal, especially as they're the kind of large, round glasses generally associated with Nerds Are Sexy.

• Arthur from Rune Factory 4 has a real thing for glasses. He wears a pair himself, collects hundreds of pairs simply because he thinks they're cute, and often tries to get the player or another character to try on glasses.
• Yandere Simulator: Osana finds guys with glasses attractive, which is important for the player to know when using the Matchmaking elimination method.
• Bayonetta has the titular character wearing glasses (though Word of God says she uses them more as a fashion accessory rather than actually needing them), and they definitely don't subtract from her appeal.

• On Daria, Kevin gets Purely Aesthetic Glasses (without lenses) because he thinks they'll literally make him smarter. As a bonus, his girlfriend Brittany apparently really likes him wearing them.