my last post!

so this completes my 50 posts yay :)

and i wanted to talk about voyerism: the idea of people watching with no necessary sexual intentions. When in class I first read this, I thought it was a really CREEPY concept, like who stares at other people. But then as we talked more and more about it, I realized we all do it, every single day. For example; I live in Kelly Quad at Stony Brook and we have balconies, so my roomate and I early mornings or late nights on Thursdays and Fridays when we decide to stay in, go out on the balcony and see what other people are upto. Sometimes we see people we know trip over a branch, struggle with the keys, drop things and its actually a lot of fun to watch from far and just laugh at them. One time, when there was a snow storm, my friends and I just sat at our window and watched these 2 boys play in the snow, make a snowman, have a snowball fight.

Many of the times, when you are people watching, its unintentional. Like you are just staring in space and happen to see someone do something embarassing, or something cute. A lot of the times, a group of friends may just sit down at a bench in the park, or the beach and check out girls/guys.

The concept of voyerism was also showed in the T.V. show FRIENDS. The FRIENDS always used to stare from their big window in the city apartment across the street at the ugly naked guy. None of them had any sexual attraction or intention towards the guy but watched him for fun, plain entertainment.

some clips from friends:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc-aiNph3y8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpKdXS_1XlI