SOC229 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Desroches Island, Orillia, Voyeurism
16 Oct 2015
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Locales where men go for impersonal sex. It"s a crime only bc of the public nature of the acts; it"s considered an indecent act. Typically a male behaviour, no studies about women being involved behaviour and characteristics of participants homes, sympathetic and biased towards men who engage in this behaviour. Made direct observations of tearoom participants, interviewed these men in their. Purpose? was to present a detailed ethnographic description and analysis of the. The nature of his topic and research methods were questionable in terms of ethics. Portrayed himself as heterosexual, but years later announced that he was gay. The intimate detail he provides in tearoom trade makes people think he was engaged. Initially learned about tearoom behaviour by counselling homosexual men while being in that kind of behaviour a parish priest prior to the beginning of his sociology studies and phd studies.
