Back in the day, peeping—known clinically as “voyeurism”— was considered a perversion. But then again, anal sex, oral sex, masturbation, and lesbianism (to name just a few) were also considered perverse activities during less-enlightened periods. These days, sexologists, psychologists, and clinicians of all sorts agree: voyeurism—getting off by secretly or openly watching sexual acts—can be an enriching, healthy part of most anyone’s sex life.
And researchers agree on another point too: many modern Americans, probably even a majority, have had some form of voyeuristic experience. If voyeurism were a perversion (which it most definitely is not), most of us belong to the club!
“Kristy is an attractive young book illustrator. She lives with her husband in a New York City suburb. “My first and possibly most important sexual experience was a voyeuristic one,” she says. “It happened when I was still a virgin and away at summer camp. I remember our counselor Annie, a really pretty 18-year-old who was quite popular with the male staff, had dropped us off at the arts and crafts cabin and disappeared on her ‘break.’ But I had just gotten my period and wasn’t feeling so hot, so after about half an hour I decided to go back to our bunk and read.”
“I guess they didn’t hear me on the bunk’s front porch because I was wearing sneakers, but I sure heard them…Annie and Larry. Larry was the swimming instructor, a blond, muscular hunk. The front door was partly open, and I could see what they were doing right there on a bunk—next to it, actually. That’s because she was bending over, holding onto the bar at the foot of the bed, and Larry was standing behind her, holding tight and shoving his stiff pole in and out of her.”
“Annie’s tank top was pushed up off of her large boobs, and her white shorts and panties were down around her ankles. Larry had his orange bathing shorts down too, and their nakedness and my viewpoint left nothing to the imagination.”
“I could see every single probe of his big, wet cock. I could see the effect it was having on Annie, too. I had only heard about orgasms up until then, but from all her moaning and from the way her body was trembling, I knew Larry’s hard fucking was giving her one.”
“After a while, Larry lay down on his back on my bunk. I could see that his dick was still long and hard. Annie climbed on top of him, facing his feet, sat on his prong, and started massaging her cunt at the same time.”
“When she was close to coming, she fell backward on top of him, and had her second orgasm from her fingers while his dick rammed her from behind! When she came, her juices spluttered out onto the bed.”
“I was so excited by watching, I wanted to play with my own cunt right then and there. And I would have if I hadn’t also been afraid that they or someone else would catch me at it. But I hid in the bushes, and when Annie and Larry left soon afterward, I snuck back into the bunk. I put my face down right next to the half-dry puddle of love juice and sperm on the bed—it still smelled really fragrant—and pushed my fingers into my drenched bathing-suit bottoms and played with myself just the way I’d seen Annie do it. In a few minutes, I was having a wonderful orgasm of my own.”
“I can still remember how sexy Annie and Larry looked. I sometimes fantasize about them when I’m masturbating or having sex with my husband. But in a real way, I guess I have to say that watching them that time taught me more about how to get pleasure from my own body than any other single sex act.”
Kristy’s account is an excellent example of a young woman getting a “sex lesson” in a safe, non-threatening yet exciting way. As one psychologist puts it, “Young people are naturally curious about the mysteries of sex and often a bit frightened too. Thus, they tend to seek out voyeuristic experiences, such as spying on others. This should in no way be regarded as abnormal. In fact, as a way of learning about sex, voyeuristic activity can be preferable to direct experiencing of intercourse, which, especially in the uninformed, can be unpleasant or painful.”
But voyeurism can actually lead to active sexual experience too.
“Alan, a photography instructor at a Vermont college, provides a pointed example of this fact. “When I was younger, I spent my summer vacation at my friend’s summer cottage,” he says. “His sister Susan was there too. Susan was beautiful… with long blond hair and a great body. But since she was three years older than me, she was much more interested in her flock of older admirers than she was in her ‘punk’ brother’s friend. In fact, her parents had a hard time keeping her in line—and out of the bushes.”
“One day, I was heading out to do some fishing at a deserted swimming hole nearby (most of the locals did their swimming at the town pool) when I heard giggling on the path up ahead of me. I walked up quietly. On the rocks by the side of the little pond, I saw Susan, stark naked. She wasn’t alone either. Three of the older local guys were with her. She was on her knees sucking one of them off while another one fucked her from behind, and the third tugged at his cock, waiting for his crack at her.”
“Just as that first guy came, Susan pulled his dick out of her mouth and turned her head away. She took his cum-splash all over the side of her face…and she saw me watching her! I turned and ran for home before any of those guys could catch me. I don’t even think they tried…they were too busy getting their rocks off in and on my buddy’s sister. But that afternoon, Susan came into my room…”
‘‘She smiled at me, and the only thing she said was, ‘You know, if you tell my mom and dad what you saw, I’ll be grounded for the rest of the summer.’ And when I didn’t reply, she continued with, ‘But it’d be dumb for you to do that…especially since you can have what those other guys just had…”
“And with that, Susan pulled off her t-shirt and wiggled out of her jeans. She looked incredible standing there like that, and she felt even better when she got down on her knees in front of me, pulled out my stiff cock, and gave me my first and best blowjob ever. Just as I was about to shoot, she started to take her mouth away, but I put my hands on her head and came all over her mouth and throat. After all, since she wanted a favor from me, it was fair for her to give me one too.”
“After I came in her mouth, I put my cock in her cunt from behind, as the guy on the rock had done, and fucked her that way too. And still later, I slid my dick right into her tight little asshole. It was my first time ever for each of the things I did with her that afternoon. But it was not my last. I continued to fuck that piece of ass whenever I wanted that summer.”
These examples, just a few of the many shared by perfectly normal Americans, demonstrate that peeping can be a part of anyone’s sexual development. But voyeuristic delights need not (and do not) end there. Wayne, a truck driver from the Dallas area, writes, “I can tell you from experience that one of those myths you hear about truckers is definitely true. We do get to see a lot of hot goings on from up high in those seats in the cab. I can’t count the number of times I’ve been cruising along, and looked down into a car below in time to see some beautiful chick sucking off her boyfriend while they roll down the highway.
“Last week I watched this couple in an SUV, and the girl beside the driver had actually stripped naked and was curled up in the seat sucking her boyfriend’s cock while she fingered herself. I trailed next to them for about 10 miles—they knew I was there, but they didn’t seem to give a shit—and when the guy came all over her face, and tits, and she came from her own finger on her snatch, well, I came too. That’s because I’d been jerking myself off while I watched!”
“I’ve been doing that for a while now: searching for sex action while I drive, then beating off when I find people doing it. It makes my work interesting, and it sure beats pills for staying awake on those long hauls!”
“A pretty young English teacher from the San Francisco area confesses, I have an active sex life, but when I’m home alone, I love watching other people having sex! I live on the tenth floor of a high-rise apartment building, and from my window I have a very good view of the bedrooms across the way. It seems that whenever I bother to look—which is several times a week—I see some very ‘interesting’ stuff.”
“I like to turn out my lights, go to my window naked, and play with my vibrator while I watch people who can’t see me. I feel excited, sexy, and deliciously naughty too when I do that. Sometimes I’ll just be watching the cute young guy on the third floor, lying in bed naked and playing idly with his cock while he watches TV. But on other occasions, I’ll see people fucking, sucking each other. Last week, I even watched six people, probably swingers, have an all-night orgy right before my eyes! Watching stuff like that while I buzz my clit with my vibrator never fails to give me a whole string of mind-blowing orgasms.”
Deliciously naughty…” “A cure for boredom…” Many people agree that voyeurism is an excellent, important part of a well-rounded sex life. But peeping at sex can be fun for couples, too. Steve, a successful New York IT tech, says, “A while back, sex between me and Maryanne, my wife, had gone into the doldrums. I guess it was mainly my fault, because I was so busy spending time with my business affairs that I just didn’t seem to have the energy for lots of sex when I got home, even though my wife’s a really sexy dish.
“What I’d do instead of banging on Maryanne was wait until she’d gone to sleep. Then I’d use my high-powered binoculars to look at the sexy happenings going on in the buildings across the street. And of course, I would jerk off while I did. It was fun, and it didn’t require any ‘work’ on my part.”
“Then one evening, I was watching the couple on the fifteenth floor (across the street and two floors down from my window) while they went through a wild fuck fest with the lights on. I was jerking myself off too, and getting pretty close to coming, when all of a sudden I felt a hand on my wrist. I almost hit the ceiling. Maryanne was kneeling next to me in the darkened bedroom, stark naked. At first, I thought she was angry, of course, but then she whispered, ‘Keep on looking, honey,’ and started sucking on my cock.”
“Watching a pretty chick get fucked while another beautiful babe sucked on my dick… I have to say that was one of the biggest turn-ons I ever had. And when I came in my wife’s mouth, and she swallowed every single drop of my come, well, the main thing I felt afterward was incredibly happy. I wanted to give Maryanne the same double pleasure I’d just experienced. When she asked me what I’d been looking at, I gave her the binoculars and let her watch the live sex show while I ate her delicious snatch and then fucked her through a whole string of orgasms. These days, we’re both confirmed peepers. And our sex life has gone through the roof!”
When any type of sexual activity becomes an obsession to the exclusion of all other sexual activity, most experts agree it must be considered unhealthy. But as one component of a rich, varied sex life, voyeurism is now taking its rightful place in the erotic pantheon. But considering the numerous widespread assaults on the average citizen’s right to privacy, no examination of voyeurism would be complete without consideration of the object of voyeuristic activity. Are his or her rights to privacy being violated by the person doing the peeping?
A young newlywed from Chicago says, “Mike and I love fucking. It seemed like we just couldn’t get enough of each other. Sometimes when he gets home from work, we’ll both be so horny that he’ll just fuck me right there on the kitchen table. We don’t have time to bother turning out the lights, and to tell you the truth, when I hear giggling from across the driveway and know that our next-door neighbors are watching me stark naked on my table, sucking my husband’s mighty dick or having him ram it up into my cunt. Well, knowing that they’re watching is even more of a turn-on.”
Many people agree that knowing that their sex acts are being “secretly” watched provides added excitement to them. And one sexologist, when asked about the invasion-of-privacy aspect of voyeurism, stated quite bluntly: “I think that side of it can be greatly exaggerated. Of course, I have great respect for everyone’s right to privacy, especially in terms of his or her sexuality. But if anyone doesn’t want to be observed during their intimate erotic moments, there’s a simple solution: pull down the shades!”
But society hardly seems to be doing that. Many people are becoming more than willing to explore new frontiers in terms of their own sexuality, including the natural erotic curiosity that leads to voyeurism. And as we are more open about all sorts of sex acts, the opportunities for voyeurs of all ages and sexes are fast becoming literally endless.
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