voyeurismn.

1924 J. S. van Teslaar tr. Stekel Disorders of Instincts II. 341 Voyeurism, erotic gratification experienced at looking at another's sexual organs; morbid desire to peep into secrets.

1927 Bryan & Strachey tr. K. Abraham Sel. Papers iii. 83 If sublimation does not take place then a perversion (voyeurism and exhibitionism) arises.

1953 E. Podolsky Encycl. Aberrations 538/1 Voyeurism takes the place of the normal sexual act.

1958 Oxf. Mag. 8 May 409/1 Oxford..seems to appeal to a disagreeable mixture of envy and voyeurism.

1969 Daily Tel. 25 Apr. 19/5 There is a feeling that more and more actresses are being asked to take their clothes off at auditions..as a form of voyeurism.

1976 Listener 25 Nov. 682/3 A beggar's expression captured by a camera costing enough to feed, clothe and house him for..maybe five years. Is this kind of photography good or bad?.. Is it just an obscene form of voyeurism, a record of what one privileged class finds quaint or interesting in another?

1980 Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Nov. 1258/3 Rain on the Roof is not much more than the averagely good television play featuring voyeurism, adultery and sudden bloody death.

1985 Times 21 Jan. 3/3 Many senior politicians have been appalled by the fate of the women, whose sexual activities have been exposed in a bout of national voyeurism.