By profession: voyeur. From an early age, Gerald Foos felt an uncontrollable desire to spy on the lives of others. And as he could, took him to the end. bought a motel in Colorado and made holes in each of the 21 rooms. For 30 years sniffed what was happening inside: furtive love, clandestine meetings, the exhausted routine marriages of many years, triplets among co-workers. And also he developed statistics based on their observations, turning your hobby into a kind of laboratory of sexual and social behavior in the twentieth century.
The incredible story of this compulsive looker was told in the journal The New Yorker and soon become a book, written by journalist Gay Talese . Today Foos is 80 years old, he has long been retired and decided that it was time to confess.
Foos Manor House bought the motel in 1966. Located in Denver, Colorado, asked some reforms to satisfy their curiosity. Holes 15 centimeters by 35 covered by aluminum screens gave an overhead view of its guests. With the complicity of his two wives Donna -first, then Anita, this muscular forties was engaged in spying on who paid for a room. And later made meticulous notes. His first “observation” was a fiasco: “The man seemed to be tired of his wife, and sex was routine: after kissing her affectionately, had an erection quickly and entered getting above, with little or no preliminary, and climaxed in just five minutes. She had none and went to the bathroom. “
in another of these notes, Foos wrote: “are not a happy couple. He is ignorant of the sexual process and preliminary despite their education “. again watched a trio. ” the husband took photographs of his wife and the other man having sex in different positions. It had to be co-workers, because once they finished, they began to discuss the sale of vacuum cleaners “On another occasion he saw a man who had been paralyzed during the Vietnam War with his wife, whom he asked.: “Why follow me when I’m loving it?”.
* Gay Talese, the journalist who Foos told her story
the owner of Manor House ended witnessing thousands of meetings. and considered superior to sexologists and the focus groups work because people did not know he was being observed . of the 293 sexual acts he witnessed in 1973, “195 were heterosexual, mostly in the missionary position” . it also divided its customers into four different categories according to their sexual fogocidad.
in 1991 Foos opened a new hotel called Riviera and in 1995 sold both places and withdrew. In 2013 he contacted Gay Talese, an icon of US journalism. I was ready to tell his controversial history . And the thousands of passengers who spent their motel ever Colorado.
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