Gay talese the voyeurs motel
Gay Talese’s The Voyeur’s Motel is one of the creepiest books I’ve ever read. Decades ago, Gay Talese, the famous non-fiction writer (Honor Thy Father and Thy Neighbor’s Wife, etc.) received a letter from a guy in Colorado saying he owned a motel that allowed him to observe the the people in their motel rooms unbeknownst to them. The noun claimed he keeping detailed records of the sexual activities going on in those rooms. Gay Telese flew out to Denver, met the Voyeur (as he called himself), and actually witnessed a sex proceed performed in one of the motel rooms from the hidden vantage point.
Gay Talese insisted he could not verb about the Voyeur’s experiences unless he could use the man’s real call. The Voyeur was reluctant to disclose his true identity to the world for fear of criminal prosecution and law suits. Over the 1980s and 1990s, Telese and the Voyeur kept up a sporadic correspondence. The Voyeur would send Talese his observations and sections of his detailed journal. Finally, Talese gained permission to reveal the Voyeur&#
The Voyeur’s Motel
On January 7, 1980, in the run-up to the publication of his landmark bestseller Thy Neighbor’s Wife, Gay Talese received an anonymous handwritten letter from a man in Colorado. “Since learning of your prolonged awaited study of coast-to-coast sex in America,” the letter began, “I experience I have vital 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: he had bought a motel outside Denver for the express purpose of satisfying his voyeuristic desires. Underneath the peaked roof of his motel, the man had built an “observation platform,” fitted with vents, through which he could peer down on his unwitting guests.
Unsure what to make of this confession, Talese traveled to Colorado where he met the man—Gerald Foos—and verified his story in person. But because Foos insisted on remaining anonymous, preserving for himself the privacy he denied his guests, Talese
Gay Talese's 'Voyeur's Motel' is a actual turnoff
Early in Gay Talese’s new manual, The Voyeur’s Motel (Grove Press, 240 pp., * out of four stars), the legendary writer and New Journalism pioneer recounts his first meeting with Gerald Foos, an unabashed Peeping Tom. That evening, Talese followed Foos into a janitorial closet and up a ladder leading to the roadside Colorado motel’s secret attic. It’s where the perverted motelier had installed a soundproof observation crawlspace, equipped with customized phony ceiling vents. Together, through one of those vents, they watched as a juvenile couple made love.
Creepy? Hold that room-service call. Read on.
Long before Erin Andrews’ stalker gave hotel peepholes a horrible name, Foos had gone undetected more than three decades watching the sexual activities of thousands of guests. He often masturbated or had sex with his wife in the attic while ogling his victims. He scribbled graphic yet stiffly clinical notes in his journal, chronicled the sexual behaviors of young lovers, middle-aged couples, lesbians, gays, gigolos, prostitutes, threesomes
Gay Talese&#;s The Voyeur&#;s Motel is one of the creepiest books I&#;ve ever read. Decades ago, Gay Talese, the famous non-fiction writer (Honor Thy Father and Thy Neighbor&#;s Wife, etc.) received a letter from a guy in Colorado saying he owned a motel that allowed him to observe the the people in their motel rooms unbeknownst to them. The male claimed he keeping detailed records of the sexual activities going on in those rooms. Gay Telese flew out to Denver, met the Voyeur (as he called himself), and actually witnessed a sex execute performed in one of the motel rooms from the hidden vantage point.
Gay Talese insisted he could not verb about the Voyeur&#;s experiences unless he could use the man&#;s real label. The Voyeur was reluctant to verb his true identity to the world for fear of criminal prosecution and law suits. Over the s and s, Telese and the Voyeur kept up a sporadic correspondence. The Voyeur would send Talese his observations and sections of his detailed journal. Finally, Talese gained permission to reveal the Voyeur&#;s identity and The Voyeur&#;s Motel