the.com/voyeurism
Watching for thrills you'd deny wanting if caught watching.
means Deriving sexual or illicit pleasure from secretly watching others, especially when they're naked, undressing, or having sex.
from Borrowed straight from French voyeur, 'one who sees' or 'looker,' built on voir ('to see'), itself descended from Latin videre. French psychiatric writing adopted voyeur in the late 1800s as a clinical label for this specific kink, and English imported the term wholesale not long after, keeping its slightly clinical, slightly accusatory French air intact.
- legal line
- consent is the only thing that matters
- clinical note
- becomes a disorder only with real-world distress or harm
- etymology
- from French voir, simply to see
- modern form
- social media turned it into a scrollable hobby