Voyeurism

The desire to spy on sexual acts, naked sex organs is observed in a quarter of children of preschool age, and at the age of 7 to 11 years old, every third boy and about 6% of girls have such an inclination. Such cases are the process of the formation of sexuality in children. A child at this age treats others from the point of view of cognition, rather than enjoyment.

Perverse voyeurism is a phenomenon of obsessive desire that causes anxiety, masochistic and sadistic behavior. Most often, female voyeurs are observed sadistic inclinations of particular cruelty. Voyeurs often have exhibitionistic tendencies. In the process of observing other people's genitals, they may have a desire to demonstrate their own.

Psycho-voyeurism is one of the types of mental disorders that are related to the concept of paraphilia . Often, such phenomena can be described as repetitive sexual fantasies, actions, actions that cause anxiety, pain, and actions aimed at causing suffering, contributing to their own humiliation or partner. The concept of "paraphilia" includes such phenomena as exhibitionism, pedophilia, fetishism, masochism, voyeurism, bestiality, etc.

The film “The Obedience Experiment” (Compliance; 2012) is one of the most striking examples of events that can be characterized in terms of psycho-voyeurism and virtual voyeurism.

The main hero of the real story, which formed the basis of this film, is David Stewart. At the time of the commission of a number of crimes (1992–2004) he worked in a correctional institution in the state of Florida. David called supermarket managers, as well as managers of catering establishments, which were located mainly in remote towns. Posing as a police officer, the offender demanded to search for subordinates for the presence of narcotic substances, taken from the cash register of money, as well as stolen goods. David monitored subsequent events with CCTV cameras.

These events can be curious from the point of view of high confidence in the unknown person on the part of the manager.

In 1963, psychologist Stanley Milgram proved that it is human nature to obey someone whom he considers to be an authority, or someone who occupies a certain position in society. David Stewart’s crime series was another proof of Stanley Milgrem’s theory.

Another example of submission to authority can be an experiment conducted by psychologist and researcher Charles Hofling in 1966. He called 22 nurses from different hospitals, posing as one of the doctors of a particular medical institution. The caller told the nurse that she should give the patient 20 mg of astrogen. In 95% of cases, the nurse went to the medicine cabinet, took the drug and went to the patient to fulfill the prescription, although there was no permission to use this medicine in hospitals, and the dose of 20 mg was twice the recommended daily dose.

Screen-voyeurism ^[3] - monitoring the personal lives of people through peeping behind their screens in the office, public transport, at home.

During trips in public transport, many are faced with the fact that often strangers look at someone else's gadget, thereby reading personal correspondence, or looking at other people's photos. Often this is not due to the obsessive desire of the individual to learn something about the owner of the gadget, but because the person’s attention is attracted (or distracted) by everything bright, luminous, flashing; or simply their vision is focused on a single object. On the other hand, the owners of the gadgets themselves provoke such behavior towards themselves with a loud accompanying sound from the speakers, a bright or even defiant picture on the screen.

Screen-voyeurism often consists of spying on a person through social networks.

According to Ekaterina Bataeva, an associate professor at the Department of Sociology at Kharkov University of Humanities, there is now a desire by many to understand the processes taking place in the personal life of stars. A person, by tracking relevant news items, is trying to penetrate someone else’s life. In all this, the concept of "voyeurism" is expressed.

A person who follows the privacy of people around him can only see. The vision of the voyeur transforms his body-eye, being placed on the surface of the contemplated. Videoman / voyera is an ideal postmodern visualist figure, realizing the pragmatics of view, transforming the body into an insatiable and insatiable act of vision.

P. Bourdieu in his work "On Television and Journalism" speaks about television broadcast:

Television ... flatters these tastes and exploits them in order to conquer a larger audience, but offers television viewers primitive spiritual food, exemplified by talk shows , biographical confessions that have been experienced, often extreme, and able to satisfy a passion for a kind of voyeurism and exhibitionism.

K. Metz in his work “Imaginary signifier. Psychoanalysis and cinema "speaks about the concept of" spectator voyeurism ":

... the cinema institution prescribes to the audience immobility and silence, the viewer is hidden, is constantly in a still and super-receptive state, he is happy and alienated, acrobatically connected with himself by an invisible thread of vision and begins to perceive himself as a subject only at the last moment, thanks to paradoxical identification with his own, reduced to only one view of the individual.

Psychologist and analyst Andrei Mozharov believes that the classic voyeurs, namely, those who pry through the keyhole, transformed into amateur porn .

Classic peeping through the keyhole is as old as the world. Now it can be binoculars, cameras, etc. Such voyeurs can be called a classic type. The modern type is not the same; it gradually transformed into a virtual peeping lover, that is, an amateur of porn. This is a special kind of pornography, which has a similar name and contains video materials shot by a hidden camera. Let's look at, so to speak, "true voyeurs." These include such individuals, whose main way of satisfying sexual desire is associated with secretly peeping at naked people in the process of changing their clothes, taking a shower, sending off natural needs, in the process of having sex. Accordingly, if we are talking about the same method, but when viewing similar scenes on video, on the Internet, we can talk about the category of “virtual voyeurs”.

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