Eye glasses serve a dual purpose of bringing the outside world into sharp focus while also distancing the wearer from the world.  Spectacles are made to see the spectacle; making it clear to everyone around you that they are being observed.  At a certain point that aloofness of the nerd-set became a desirable thing that even the sighted began to desire.<\/p>\n

I first fetishized glasses when I was about eleven years old, I would wear sunglasses all the time, even inside.  My 6th grade science teacher once called a security guard to force me to remove them; I was a rebel without a cause.  I was going through puberty and all of the patriarchs in my family, two grandfathers and my dad, wore them.  So it was not a stretch of the imagination to say that I may have associated wearing glasses with being male.  Around the same time my vision actually changed from 20\/20 to much worse in under two years so testosterone and myopia in my family might be connected.  My optometrist blamed the hours of staring at a CRT monitor after school, the nerdy pursuit of computing caused my near-sightedness.<\/p>\n