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voyeurism

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voyeurism /vo·yeur·ism/ (voi´yer-izm) a paraphilia characterized by recurrent, intense sexual urges or arousal involving real or fantasized observation of unsuspecting people who are naked, disrobing, or engaging in sexual activity.
voy·eur·ism (voi-yûrzm)
n.
The practice of being a voyeur. Also called scopophilia.

Voyeurism
Sexual arousal by observing nude individuals without their knowledge.
Mentioned in: Sexual Perversions

voyeurism
[voi′yəriz′əm, voiyur′izəm]
Etymology: Fr, voyeur + L, ismus, practice
a psychosexual disorder in which a person derives sexual excitement and gratification from looking at the naked bodies and genital organs or observing the sexual acts of others, especially from a secret vantage point. See also compulsion.

voyeurism [voi´yer-izm]
a paraphilia in which the preferred method of achieving sexual excitement is by the repetitive watching of unsuspecting people who are naked, disrobing, or engaging in sexual activity.

voyeurism
Scoptophilia Psychiatry Sexuoeroticism and sexual fantasies involving the observing of unsuspecting person(s) who are naked or engaged in sexual activity. See Paraphilia, Peeping Tom, Sexual deviancy, Voyeurism. Cf Compulsion, Exhibitionism.


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Seven charges of voyeurism between June 2003 and March 2009 were added to the charge list yesterday.
Jamison, at Craigavon Crown Court, also pleaded guilty to 14 counts of voyeurism and one of attempted voyeurism to obtain sexual gratification between 30 March 1999 and 18 June past.
Community safety minister Fergus Ewing called on MSPs to amend the government's Sexual Offences Bill to make voyeurism an offence.
 
 
 
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