When a man or group of men spend an extended period of time isolated from any women, especially in the wilderness on a trip camping or even at a summer camp for weeks, it causes his/their perception of the attractiveness of any woman or women they layeyes on to be exaggerated as a result of the relative lack of exposure. Obviously this applies to straight men, I'm not sure whether it works similarly for women isolated from men or homosexual women or men being isolated from the group toward whom they are attracted, or not. My guess is that it does, though the effect may be strongest with straight men, but I don't know.
"My friend just got back to civilization from a month-long trip in the Rockies with his friends, and he was ogling hard at these chicks who couldnt have been more than a 4 or 5 and that's being generous. He definitely has a case of moose goggles after that long all-male experience. I sure wouldn't want to do something like that without at least some women along. Even if no one's getting it on or anything, it makes a huge difference for how your mind works when you see one. I've had moose goggles before after going to an all-boys summer camp and it has the disinhibitory potential to lead to decisions that could cause regret, for sure. "
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)