Voyeurism is, generally, a gender-specific crime, where men are usually the voyeurs and women are the unsuspecting victims. And now the new amendment had also made voyeurism gender-specific due to the perception of the society that sexual offences against men are not rampant in nature. This being only a small negative in the grand scheme of things.
Hypothetical Situation 1: A woman has a long-standing crush on a man, who is also her next-door neighbour. She bugs his bedroom by placing web-cameras at various strategic locations, in order to sexually gratify herself by watching him engage in various private acts like undressing, sleeping, etc.
Hypothetical Situation 2: Mr. A and Miss B together record Miss C engaging in a sexual act with her boyfriend and post the recorded video on a porn website in the internet on the pretext that people looking at it would sexually gratify themselves.
Hypothetical Situation 3: A girl secretly watches her roommate, who is also a girl, taking a shower in their communal bathroom.
Hypothetical Situation 4: A 40 year old man stalks a 15 year old boy and …show more content…
Presence of Mental Element
In order for an act to constitute voyeurism, a person should have the mental element, that is, intention to sexually gratify himself by secretly watching a private act of an individual.
Hypothetical Situation 1: A woman undresses in a place without knowing that a CCTV camera was directed at her and the CCTV camera was not placed for the purpose of voyeurism.
Hypothetical Situation 2: A landlord hires B to install a two-way mirror in his house in order to spy on his tenant C, for his sexual gratification and for allowing his friends, who come over to his house, to do so. The tenant discovers the two-way mirror before she undresses and the tenant fails to watch her in that act.
Hypothetical Situation 3: A man places a web-camera in the bathroom in order to watch his step-daughter bathe but his wife comes and takes a shower in the bathroom
Hypothetical Situation 1: A woman has a long-standing crush on a man, who is also her next-door neighbour. She bugs his bedroom by placing web-cameras at various strategic locations, in order to sexually gratify herself by watching him engage in various private acts like undressing, sleeping, etc.
Hypothetical Situation 2: Mr. A and Miss B together record Miss C engaging in a sexual act with her boyfriend and post the recorded video on a porn website in the internet on the pretext that people looking at it would sexually gratify themselves.
Hypothetical Situation 3: A girl secretly watches her roommate, who is also a girl, taking a shower in their communal bathroom.
Hypothetical Situation 4: A 40 year old man stalks a 15 year old boy and …show more content…
Presence of Mental Element
In order for an act to constitute voyeurism, a person should have the mental element, that is, intention to sexually gratify himself by secretly watching a private act of an individual.
Hypothetical Situation 1: A woman undresses in a place without knowing that a CCTV camera was directed at her and the CCTV camera was not placed for the purpose of voyeurism.
Hypothetical Situation 2: A landlord hires B to install a two-way mirror in his house in order to spy on his tenant C, for his sexual gratification and for allowing his friends, who come over to his house, to do so. The tenant discovers the two-way mirror before she undresses and the tenant fails to watch her in that act.
Hypothetical Situation 3: A man places a web-camera in the bathroom in order to watch his step-daughter bathe but his wife comes and takes a shower in the bathroom