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    TexMec Senior Member Louis VI the Fat's Avatar
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    Question Spectator or voyeur?

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    Where does appreciation of beauty turn from spectatorship into voyeurism?


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    Until you're cleaning blood off your clown suit, it's all good.

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    Default Re: Spectator or voyeur?

    Quote Originally Posted by Lemur View Post
    Until you're cleaning blood off your clown suit, it's all good.
    Blood? That only happens to amateurs. Me I use pockets full of candy to lure 'em and


    What if she brutally stares you down if your gaze turned out to be too indecent? Or just the right level of indecency, but for too long?
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    When you turn your head instead of just glancing with your eyes, i.e. when you go out of your way.

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    Well, let's be honest, I'm coming at this subject as a guy who has zero problem with putting on antlers, standing on a float and singing in parades, so maybe I don't have the most balanced view about what's voyeurism and what isn't.

    That said, however, as long as one discreetly looks at another person, I don't see any harm. Sometimes they even look back and lovely things happen. But yeah, never be aggressive or pushy about it; that way madness lies.

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    Default Re: Spectator or voyeur?

    Quote Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro View Post
    When you turn your head instead of just glancing with your eyes, i.e. when you go out of your way.
    Nah that's what we call the excorcist method

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    ..which would give a whole new twist to "WE WANT MERRIN"
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    I'm afraid I've dubbed you a pervert, thinking them all pictures of the same girl. Stalking some poor lass across town with a camera's one thing. Taking the odd shot of random (leggy, female) people going about their business another.
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    Where does appreciation of beauty turn from spectatorship into voyeurism?
    If you take more than one picture of a person you don't know. When the image focuses on the girl alone and not in connection with the background.

    Sasaki's guideline is good too; glancing is one thing; staring is another.

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    I don't mind if the girls look at my well-shaped behind either. And they do it, whether they look at mine is hard to say, don't have eyes in the back of my head but in general, they sure do it.
    I don't take pictures of anyone usually so that is out of the question, and if I got that correctly the ones above were not taken by Louis?
    When I was in Prague I saw a flash of a camera right behind a girl's skirt/jeans, I found that quite...you know...
    However, it is hard to appreciate beauty without looking at it, and sometimes the details are very interesting, that doesn't always mean something dirty has to happen in the process, as I posted in the Frontroom I'm more the friendly friend type anyway (though incidentally I hardly ever hug a woman I'm not related to, I never know when it would be appropriate and prefer not to get too close ).


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