THE VOYEUR'S MOTEL

On January 7, 1980, in the run-up to the publication of his landmark bestseller Thy Neighbors Wife, Gay Talese received an anonymou s letter from a man in Colorado. Since learning of your long awaited study of coast-to-coast sex in America, the letter began, I feel I have important information that I could contribute to its contents or to contents of a future book. The man went on to tell Talese an astonishing secret, that he had bought a motel to satisfy his voyeuristic desires. He had built an attic observation plat form, fitted wit...[Read more]