The Voyeur Who Never Got Caught

Watching people fascinates me. I could wander around a room of the most boring people in the world for hours at a time and be completely content with just watching. There is a lot that you can learn about a person just by seeing how they hold themselves, what they say and what they do when they think that no one is watching them.

Sexual voyeurism has a fine line sometimes…and that line is called consent.

I love being watched when I’m feeling sexy. Turning on my camera to let people share in my sexual experiences can be fun for me sometimes. But if someone was spying on me without my consent, I’d feel violated and angry.

Gay Talese has been writing for decades. He’s an author whose book Thy Neighbor’s Wife caused quite a stir in 1980’s. While he was researching American sexuality for that book, he received a letter from a man in Colorado who owned a hotel. In the pages of his letter, the man confessed that he had been spying on people through ceiling vents and cataloging people’s activities. Talese wasn’t sure what to make of the man but he wasn’t able to use the motel story for his book because the man wished to remain anonymous…and that was a deal breaker. As a non-fiction writer, he wanted all the subjects in his book to be open and honest with his audience.

Over the years, the man in the Colorado motel kept in touch with Talese, and he is finally willing to let his story be told.

In the winter of 1966 Gerald Foos, with the help of his wife Donna, began watching his guests. In Talese’s New Yorker story linked below, he quotes Foos as saying:

“Donna was not a voyeur,” he told me, “but, rather, the devoted wife of a voyeur. And, unlike me, she grew up having a free and healthy attitude about sex.” He went on, “The attic was an extension of our bedroom.” When Donna was not with him on the viewing platform, he said, he would either masturbate or memorize what he saw and re-create it with his wife.

Even though Foos admits that he gets excited when he secretly watches the sexual exploits of strangers, he says that he is not a Peeping Tom, but a serious researcher.

Guy’s New Yorker piece is interesting, but it’s also fucked up. He admits to participating in the non-consensual viewing of a couple in the hotel while he was researching his book…and he says that they almost got caught because his tie accidentally slipped through the vent?

I’m not down with this…and I kind of don’t buy that Foos’ 50 year career as a voyeur almost came to an end when Talese decided to join in the “fun.”

I can understand that it’s sexy to get accidentally caught in the act…but straight up invading someone’s privacy just doesn’t jive with me.

What do you Peepz think? Have you ever watched someone when you shouldn’t have been watching? Were you caught? Let me know in the comments below!

To celebrate voyeurism in all it’s consensual glory, here’s a PornHub clip of a slinky brunette getting off outdoors while we enjoy the view:

You can pre-order Guy Talese’s book, The Voyeur’s Motel, which will be released on July 12, 2017, on Amazon by clicking here.

Source: The New Yorker

Image: Nicole Aniston in Oh No You Don’t! by Brazzers

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