Voyeurism

[Arthur]

I always took the term voyeurism is that you like watching people and their intimate moments particularly when they weren’t aware that you were watching them. But it’s interesting what those statistics say seeing as it seems like more men like watching women naked or undressing whereas more women by far seem to enjoy wearing revealing clothing, suggesting that men like to watch and that women like to be watched. But that could just be down to society seeing as there is just much more sexual objectification of women compared to men.

[Mark Oz]

If 71% of women enjoy exhibitionism where are all the naked women???

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[Ed]

As it includes tight and revealing clothing. Go into any town centre on a hot day. Being naked has social connotations but, up-t0-a-point, skimpy is allowed.

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[Anonymous]

I think of voyeurism as the visual equivalent of eavesdropping, and I’d include upskirting and downshirting in that. Now I come to think of it, though, if I happen to walk past a woman in a short skirt sitting on a low wall (as I did today) then glancing between her legs doesn’t sound serious enough to be called voyeurism. I know it’s impolite though! It’s more like accidentally overhearing something than intentionally eavesdropping, so maybe that makes sense. Where it becomes highly offensive, such as hiding a camera in a changing room, I’d definitely call that voyeurism.

The first house we lived in, the people who lived across the road didn’t like it that our next door neighbours had sex with their curtains open. The people across the road weren’t being voyeurs, they were just seeing something they didn’t really want to. If I had gone across the road to spy on my neighbours, I would say I was being a voyeur, even though the neighbours probably wouldn’t have cared. I assume they liked the idea that they could have been seen. Maybe they wouldn’t have liked being actually stared at though.

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[Ed]

That sounds about right to me. As is often the case, the scientific/medical term doesn’t entirely match the everyday use.

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