The Voyeur's Motel

The aberration continued until he had circled the motel room several times, when the rotund male subject proceeded to chase the younger male on hands and knees.

“You are heavenly,” the rotund male said, “I have never seen a more beautiful sheep-boy.”

Then the rotund man raised the long white tail with his hands and, with his erect penis, gouged through the young man’s buttocks while the latter called out, “baa, baa.” Later, the older man eased himself out of the younger man, and lay on top of him, holding him delicately, and then, after turning him over, began sucking his penis until orgasm . . .

Conclusion: This condition could perhaps be classified as a perversity, but it should not be condemned because both individuals are willing participants, and therefore the Voyeur will remain nondiscriminatory in its interpretation.

Vignette No. 3:

Checked in this handsome male into Room 6 and thought he would probably bring in a girl later. Upon observation, he brought a suitcase into the room, opened it, and placed it on the bed. Seeing that it contained only women’s clothes, I immediately thought they probably were for a girlfriend that would visit him later.

He removed all his clothes and, after lining all the women’s in a row on the bed, he picked up each article of clothing and gently fondled it and looked at it with great appreciation. He then appeared to attest to a sense of great pleasure and relaxation when viewing these clothes of the opposite sex, expressing a relish for the feel of the material.

After carefully dressing in this woman’s attire, he was greatly impressed with his view in the mirror, and then sat down and applied substantial amounts of make-up to complete his cross-dressing.

After parading around the room for several minutes, he departed the room for destinations unknown to me. I did not see him return and he probably checked out that evening when he returned.

Conclusion: Transvestites or cross-dressing individuals have been observed on only two or three occasions. Therefore, I consider this to be a rare practice. This male was observed taking off a wedding band, and is probably married. He wanted a place to demonstrate his behavior and chose a motel where he would feel secure. This man’s cross-dressing allowed him to express the gentle, graceful, sensuous side of his nature that society does not permit him to express as a man.





THIRTEEN


ACCORDING TO the Voyeur’s report on 1974, which was his eighth annual summarization of what he saw and heard since he began watching people from his attic hideaway in 1966, there were 329 guests whose sexual activities he believed warranted attention and description in his journal. But much of what he saw in 1974 was similar to what he had seen in 1973, and in earlier years as well, except for two categories: oral sex among white heterosexual guests, which rose from only 12 percent to 44 percent, perhaps affected by the release of the pornographic film Deep Throat in the summer of 1972, and interracial sex.

During the entire year of 1973, he had observed only five interracial couples having sex, whereas in 1974 this number more than doubled to twelve couples; and it doubled again, between 1975 and 1980, to an average of twenty-five couples. He added, “The most amazing statistic is the almost complete participation in oral sexual adventures by interracial couples, which is practically total for both partners.”

What was also a sign of change, beginning in the mid-1970s, was the casual manner in which interracial couples approached the front office while registering for rooms. A decade earlier, in the mid-1960s, the Voyeur noted that a white woman, for example, would never accompany her black lover while he registered. She would usually remain in the car, and join him later after he had obtained the key and occupied the room.

But by the mid-1970s such reticence on the part of either a white or black woman was replaced by the sight of couples standing together at the registration desk—which the Voyeur saw as one of many examples in which his small motel reflected the changing social trends and evolving attitudes that were spreading through the nation.

And, on a strictly personal note, the Voyeur acknowledged that he found watching interracial sex to be especially stimulating, and on one occasion it was the source of his most “explosive orgasm.”

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