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#159615 - 05/08/06 06:19 PM What's the word for ...?
mandy stranger Registered: 05/08/06 Posts: 1	I know it's a bit late for this topic, but if anyone can help me track down a particular word, it'll bet you can. Once, while on a walking tour of London, the guide used the term that everyone suffers, the compulsion we have to peer in the windows of other peoples houses. No not 'peeping tom'. You know if your walking down a street, especially at night when it's dark, if there's a house with the curtains open, one cannot help but look in as they pass by. You don't stop to look, but as you're passing, if you can see in you look. As I said, the tour guide mentioned the term for this & I cannot for the life of me remember what it is. Can you help?
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#159616 - 05/08/06 07:58 PM Re: What's the word for ...?
TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel Registered: 07/17/00 Posts: 3467 Loc: Marion NC	voyeurism _________________________ TEd
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#159617 - 05/08/06 07:59 PM Re: What's the word for ...?
TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel Registered: 07/17/00 Posts: 3467 Loc: Marion NC	And I don't know about the law in England, but it is common law here in the United States that windows are for looking out of, not into. _________________________ TEd
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#159618 - 05/08/06 08:30 PM Re: What's the word for ...?
tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10463 Loc: this too shall pass	that's as may be; but here's a word more specific to the question, and probly wrong as well: cryptoscopophilia - the urge to look through the windows of homes you walk past
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#159619 - 05/08/06 09:36 PM Re: What's the word for ...?
inselpeter Pooh-Bah Registered: 03/14/01 Posts: 2379 Loc: New York City	It is transparent. Windows are for looking out of by day and into by night. Curtains are common law.
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#159620 - 05/08/06 10:40 PM Re: What's the word for ...?
Elizabeth Creith addict Registered: 03/22/05 Posts: 500 Loc: Northern Ontario, Canada	Quote: It is transparent. Windows are for looking out of by day and into by night. Curtains are common law. And, in an urban area, common sense.
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#159621 - 05/09/06 05:46 PM Re: What's the word for ...?
WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/13/01 Posts: 4189 Loc: Rio Grande, Cape May County, N...	peepingtommery...?
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