The greatest voyeur in the world
Many years ago Gerald Foos, amarried man and father of two bought a twenty-one-room motel near Denver. He decided to not only to let rooms, but also wanted to become its resident voyeur in order to do some research about the sex life of his guests. His story is now out in the open, thanks to the article published in the New Yorker by journalist Gay Talese.
For 29 years he watched perhaps thousands, of guests having sex at the Manor House Motel in Colorado.To be able to observe his guests, he cut small holes in the ceilings of more than a dozen rooms. The openings were covered with louvred aluminum screens. They looked like ventilation grilles but were actually observation vents. He wrote down everything he saw and heard through this fake ceiling vents and was never caught. The story came out when Foos send a letter to the journalist in 1980: “Sexually, I have witnessed, observed, and studied the best first hand, unrehearsed, non-laboratory sex between couples, and most other conceivable sex deviations during these past 15 years,” it read.
Foos wanted to be seen as a “sex researcher and social observer,” not a mere Peeping Tom and pervert.
Some of his catalogued observations:
- 1973: 184 male orgasms and 33 female orgasms.
- Heterosexuals tended to have missionary sex.
- Only 3% of the guests failed to have sex.
Gerald Foos sold his motel in 1995. The buyers presumably never knew why some of the guest rooms had six-by-fourteen-inch plasterboard patches in the ceilings.
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