Lens Crafty

I'm putting up my online dating profile, and wonder if I'm being deceitful by posting a picture of myself without glasses. (I photograph better without them, but basically wear them everywhere but in bed.)

--Miss Four Eyes

Internet daters posting photos to their profiles are intent on putting their best foot forward -- and all too often, it's a foot attached to another person's body. So, on the online dating ethics spectrum, posting a photo sans your glasses is like taking an extra mint at the bank versus holding the teller up at gunpoint. After all, you can take glasses off, unlike somebody's unpictured 80 extra pounds, as in, "I basically wear these 80 pounds everywhere but in bed!" To be more honest, post a secondary picture of your bespectacled self, and be sure to include a full body shot to show guys that you aren't built like a manatee (aka the "sea cow"). Keep in mind that online daters probably assume their prospects are lying about essential details until proven otherwise. It should come as something of a relief to your dates when they find out your big secret, and it's that you have an astigmatism, not an Adam's apple.