Prologue
SIN SCENE!
J. Martin Crispian was totally preoccupied with the scenes of sin that were to be uncovered everywhere in the apartment building. Peering from behind drawn shades, he saw every sadistic act of perversion, the gratification of unspeakable fetishes. By spying from his window, day after day, he knew the depraved truths, the sordid shadow lives of tenants who dwelled in the degenerate apartment complex, wallowing in their evil rituals. The practitioners of lust would have sickened anyone-anyone but Crispian! For him, peeping had become a vocation that separated him from reality. In The Encyclopedia of Sexual Behavior, William R. Reevy writes: "The tendency of the male to voyeurism is so well known that Kinsey makes the statement that 'There are probably very few heterosexual males who would not take advantage of the opportunity to observe a nude female' ... voyeurism is admitted to by the great majority of adult males...." But if Crispian was sick, what term could describe his neighbors?