The Eternal Awkwardness of Wearing Glasses

On the difficulty of having sex — and doing most other things — while bespectacled

Illustration: Albert Tercero

If you’ve ever seen a naked man in glasses, you know how ridiculous he looks: fully dressed from the neck up, like an anatomically correct paper doll. The bespectacled nude in my mirror every morning is familiar to me and yet still somehow odd — few…