Voyeurism

Voyeurism is the sexual interest in or practice of watching other people engaged in intimate behaviours, such as undressing, sexual activity, or other actions of a private nature.

Quotes

• Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
  The eyes of men without an orator;
  What needeth then apology be made
  To set forth that which is so singular?
  Or why is Collatine the publisher
    Of that rich jewel he should keep unknown
    From thievish ears, because it is his own?
  • William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

• Her hair bound backward in a spiral wreath
    Her upper beauties to my sight betray’d;
  The happy stream concealing those beneath,
    Around her waist with circling waters play’d;
  • Samuel Croxall, "On Florinda, Seen while she was bathing"
  • The Fair Circassian, with Several Occasional Poems (1765)

• They never saw him drawing pictures of them naked at their antics in his notebook.
  • Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (1922), p. 135

• Errol had ... two-way mirrors, speaker systems in the ladies' room. Not for security. Just that he was an A-1 voyeur.
  • Ronnie Wood, on viewing Errol Flynn's former Hollywood home in the 1970s
  • Quoted in: Michael Mazzone; Robert Matzen, Errol Flynn Slept Here (2009), n.p.