Peeping Tom

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Peeping Tom the man said to have watched Lady Godiva ride naked through Coventry; his character is in fact a 17th-century addition to the story. From the late 18th century, peeping Tom has been used to denote a person who gets sexual pleasure from secretly watching people undressing or engaging in sexual activity; in the US, an act outlawing intrusive voyeurism is known as a peeping Tom statute.

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