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Do you ever feel like you're being watched?

In a world where CCTV, mobile phones, doorbell cameras and body-worn cameras are seemingly everywhere, we can get caught on camera when we least expect it.

There's likely footage of us out there with our faces on it, and we don't even realise.

But there are spaces when we expect there to be no cameras, where we're not supposed to be watched.

Public bathrooms, changing rooms, hotel rooms.

But in today's case, for guests in a specific American hotel, those expectations would not be met.

I'm Naomi Channel and this is real. The

The On the 7th of January, 1980, an American writer called Gay Talese received a handwritten letter at his home in New York.

It had been sent by a special delivery.

Gay was in the middle of writing a non-fiction book called Thy Neighbour's Wife,

which detailed sexual behaviours and patterns in America before the AIDS pandemic.

It was definitely an original book, and it was because of that book that Gay received the following

letter. Dear Mr. Taliz, since learning of your long-awaited study of coast-to-coast sex in America,

which will be included in your soon-to-be-published book, Thy Neighbor's Wife,

I feel I have important information that I could contribute to its contents or to contents of a future book.

The writer of the letter went on to reveal that he and his wife had purchased a motel

over ten years ago.

The reason for purchasing this motel was to satisfy my voyeuristic tendencies and compelling

interest in all phases of how people conduct their lives, both socially and

sexually. I did this purely out of my unlimited curiosity about people and not as just a deranged

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