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Voyeurism See also Eavesdropping. Actaeon turned into stag for watching Artemis bathe. [Gk. Myth.: Leach, 8] watch Susanna bathe. [Apocrypha: Susanna; Art: Daniel, 217] king’s bodyguard requested secretly to view queen undressing. [Gk. Lit.: Avery, 507–508] illicitly glanced at the naked Godiva. [Br. Legend: Brewer Dictionary, 815] takes advantage of unshaded hospital window to watch nurses taking baths. [Am. Lit.: Heggen Mister Roberts in Sobel, 479] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Arbus' upstairs encounters with Lionel chart a gradual progression as she moves from shyness to full-blown voyeur, but the meetings are mostly juiceless. Though he was called a culture vulture, voyeur and white decadent by some, it was through Van Vechten that Larsen made many life-altering liaisons, meeting Ethel Waters, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Zora Neale Hurston, Gertrude Stein, and most propitiously, Alfred and Blanche Knopf, the publishers of Larsen's novels. Often described as the quintessential voyeur, Auder defends himself by systematically implicating himself in the environments he films and by using the camera as a tool for social interaction. |
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