Voyeurism - everything you need to know about the disease

Peeping, peeping - these words in Russian have a negative color. These actions do not fall into the category of criminally punishable, if not accompanied by threats against the observed and blackmail. However, nobody wants to become an object of secret surveillance, especially if it is an intimate life.

What is Voyeurism?

The paradox, but so unsightly behavior has a very euphonious name, came from the French language - voyeurism (voir - see). The English term for this phenomenon is vizionism. This sexual deviation from the norm is associated with getting pleasure and satisfaction from spying on people taking showers, having sex, staying in the toilet, etc.

Hidden looking at naked bodies is peculiar to children. Up to 11 years it is considered a natural curiosity and performs the functions of studying the surrounding world and self-knowledge. If, over the years, innocuous research turns into pleasure from observing the innermost actions of people, then it is a question of mental pathology. The most extreme manifestation of this disease is a complete substitution of one's own sexual activity by spying on someone else's intimate life.

Voyeurism - the causes of the disease

Spying voyeurism turns into an obsession. According to experts, most of the causes leading to mental disorders lie in the childhood period of a person's life. Voyeurism is no exception. Its sources are:

• psychological trauma received by a child from a suddenly broken relationship with the mother in the first two years of life;
• stress from accidentally seen genitalia of adults or sexual games and sexual intercourse;
• emphasis on the child's attention to the visual process and the impact of what he saw on the beginning or continuation of other processes;
• Absence of sexual education, expressed in two extremes - absolute prohibition and total connivance.

Female Voyeurism

Some researchers in the field of psychiatry and psychotherapy determine the tendency to view pornographic films, strip shows, "magazines for adults", as a hidden voyeurism. However, the main parameter of this disease is peeping, voyeurism involves getting pleasure from secret surveillance of intimate processes. Among women, voyeurs are extremely rare.

1. In women, thought processes take place in the frontal lobes of the brain, which are responsible not for logic, but for emotions, so they are not inclined to establish a cause-effect relationship "I saw - I enjoyed it."
2. Women have more developed auditory analyzers than visual, they tend to "love with their ears, not with their eyes."
3. During the reception of pleasure, consciousness and logical thinking in women become blurred, and when orgasm is completely turned off.

Male Voyeurism

Specialists have revealed that the bulk of voyeurs are representatives of the stronger sex, in which peeping for women and enjoying the sight of their naked bodies is inherent in nature. Men "love eyes" and when choosing they are guided by what they see. They are genetically programmed for actions (the time between the first and second stage is minimal):

1. I saw a naked woman.
2. There was a sexual arousal.
3. I enjoyed.

Fighting Voyeurism

At first glance, voyeurism is an innocuous act, which lovers play peek. From the point of view of the law it "pulls" a maximum on an administrative offense. Quite different from the ethical point of view: the observed is used as a sexual object, and without his knowledge. In other words, the "victim" does not suspect that her actions are being monitored.

For the observer, this disease threatens with huge problems:

• inability to lead a normal sexual life;
• a constantly felt feeling of guilt and fear of being discovered;
• a pathological need to feed new impressions and images;
• a state of psychosis.

There are ways to treat voyeurism:

1. The realization of the unconscious is psychoanalysis.
2. Psychotherapy, combined in severe cases with medication.
3. Behavioral therapy - correction of behavior and thinking.

Movies about Voyeurism

Cinema is an art that reflects reality. The phenomenon of voyeurism is often present in detectives, where the crime is revealed, thanks to the observer-voyeur with binoculars or a telescope from the house opposite. Movies about voyeurists, or including voyeuristic storylines, are usually filmed in the genre of drama or thriller.

1. "Experiment" Obedience " (drama, 2012, directed by Craig Zobel). The protagonist, posing as a police officer, watches the search of citizens.
2. "A short film about love" (drama, 1988, directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski). A young man, spying on a woman and her lovers, falls in love and eventually opens his veins.