Where Does Exhibitionism End and Voyeurism Begin?

Pryderi

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Sun Nov-01-09 03:15 PM
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Where Does Exhibitionism End and Voyeurism Begin?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/22/naked-man-charged-with-in_n_330037.html
A Northern Virginia man was arrested and charged with indecent exposure after brewing coffee naked in his own home.

Eric Williamson, 29, said he did not know he could be seen. There is a school bus stop in front of his house.

"Yes, I wasn't wearing any clothes but I was alone, in my own home and just got out of bed. It was dark and I had no idea anyone was outside looking in at me," Williamson told MyFoxDC.com. "I'm a loving dad-- any of my friends would tell you that," he said. "There is not a chance on this planet I would ever, ever do anything like that to a kid."

Fairfax police say that, according to a witness, Williamson wanted to be seen naked. If convicted, he could be fined $2,000 and spend a year in jail.

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/22/naked-man-charged-with-in_n_330037.html

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Warpy

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Sun Nov-01-09 03:18 PM
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1. Unless he was well lighted in his front window, waving his tool at them

they've really got no case at all.

I'm really sick of goddamned prudes who want to deny we've all got BODIES under our clothes.

Instead of going after Williamson, they should have taught their kids it's impolite to look in anybody's windows.

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seabeyond

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Sun Nov-01-09 03:27 PM
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2. if he stood in front of sliding glass door waving it with kids walking by or walk up to kitchen

window and look in

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niyad

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Mon Nov-02-09 12:33 AM
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8. okay, once again, the man was in his own home--the first reports say it was 5:30 am--just

how many people, let alone kids, do you think are walking by at that time of day?

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seabeyond

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Mon Nov-02-09 07:30 AM
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9. there was a questioned asked, i gave an answer.

read the article though

the 5:30 part is his roommates left at 5:0. the woman walking kids to school at 8:40. this story is more clear than the story a week or two ago. but i am not arguing who did what. i just answer the question on subject line

"He said that by 9 a.m. he had gotten dressed to walk out to his car "

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MikeE

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Sun Nov-01-09 03:39 PM
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3. Keep in mind this is Fairfax VA...

where the police actually went into a bar and arrested people for being drunk, even though there was no disturbance. You couldn't pay me to live in VA.

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johnaries

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Sun Nov-01-09 03:52 PM
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4. Give him a break, he hadn't had his coffee, yet!

I can't be held accountable for anything I do until I've had my coffee. :)

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Robb

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Sun Nov-01-09 03:54 PM
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5. Holy crap. Read the WP article:

Williamson, reached by phone, said that his roommates had left for work by 5:30 that morning and that he was happy to have the house to himself. He made coffee and eggs and started packing up his belongings. He is a commercial diver and had lost his job a few days earlier, and he was planning to move to his mother's house near Virginia Beach.

He said that by 9 a.m. he had gotten dressed to walk out to his car and that by 10 a.m., he was napping in his room. Police arrived about an hour later, he said.

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One of the five officers who went into his house called him a pervert, he said, and others looked through his belongings. They left but returned a short time later to take him to the magistrate.

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On Wednesday, after Williamson had left for his mother's house, police handed out fliers in the neighborhood asking people to report anything about the incident or others like it.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/25/AR2009102502468.html?hpid=moreheadlines

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niyad

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Mon Nov-02-09 12:27 AM
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6. this happened at 5:30 am, according to the reports I read last week.

the woman who reported him was the wife of a police officer, supposedly out walking with their child (at 5:30 in the morning?????)

the whole story stinks like week-old fish.

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Rabrrrrrr

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Mon Nov-02-09 08:33 AM
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10. And they were walking across his yard, so they were trespassing (or close to it)

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niyad

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Mon Nov-02-09 12:31 AM
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7. those two behaviours are not a continuum--

ex⋅hi⋅bi⋅tion⋅ism /ˌɛksəˈbɪʃəˌnɪzəm/ Show Spelled Pronunciation Show IPA
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–noun 1. a tendency to display one's abilities or to behave in such a way as to attract attention.
2. Psychiatry. a disorder characterized esp. by a compulsion to exhibit the genitals in public.

(not in public, as the man was in his own home)

vo⋅yeur⋅ism /vwɑˈyɜrɪzəm, vɔɪ-, ˈvɔɪəˌrɪz-/ Show Spelled Pronunciation Show IPA
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–noun the practice of obtaining sexual gratification by looking at sexual objects or acts, esp. secretively.

that, however, does seem to fit the woman.

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