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Was peeping normal in the 80s?


Did anyone else who grew up in the 80s think peeping on girls was just something all teenage boys did? Nearly EVERY comedy that came out back then included a peeping scene as did TV shows, including dramas, minus the nudity. Hell, even Little House on the Prairie had multiple episodes involving peeping boys. I don't recall seeing it much after that save the webcam scene in American Pie or shown in a negative light in Lifetime movies.

If I was more ambitious I'd list everything I can remember back then with at least one scene, but Maximum Overdrive is about to start.

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seems to be a common trend.

i'm curious what other movies or tv shows from the 80's had peeping, with nudity shown

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Private School.
That shower peeping was exceptional!
Lynda Wiesmeier... yummm!

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Revenge of the Nerds

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Stripes. John Larroquette plays an army officer who is a peeping tom. It's another group shower scene full of gorgeous women.

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I didn't know they could do that! I wish I was a Loofah!

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Yeah, that's the funny part--in the movies the girls always catch the guys and either laugh it off or are only mildly perturbed. I can't see that happening in real life. You'd get strung up in a heartbeat. But growing up it seemed plausible!

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Yeah, that's the funny part--in the movies the girls always catch the guys and either laugh it off or are only mildly perturbed. I can't see that happening in real life. You'd get strung up in a heartbeat. But growing up it seemed plausible!


I was in high school myself when the movie came out and I never thought it was remotely possible (except in daydreams, of course 😁).

No blah, blah, blah!

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Well, this film takes place in the 50's.

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Peeping into girls' showers (and the like) was probably a lot more common before the days when you could just go online and see videos (or live feeds) of naked women any time you wanted. And so, putting it into movies like Porky's (and Animal House, with the scene where Belushi was peeking into the sorority girls' bedroom) was no doubt an effort to satisfy that carnal lust inside many young men, who could then have that experience vicariously. Thus the popularity of it then, and it not being done so much in movies today. Not defending the morality of it, just that in the pre-Internet era, I would wager that "spying on a woman in a state of undress" almost certainly entered the minds of many a heterosexual male.

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And you have to remember the context of the movie, these were high school guys in the 50's, though pornography existed it probably wasn't super easy to get your hands on some.

So if these guys wanted to see some naked girls peeping into the girls' shower was probably their best bet.

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American women were less overweight and more feminine back in the 80s too

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Hahahaha! I love it. This should get good. Obesity is not only VERY unhealthy and costly, it is less sexually attractive - simply a fact on Earth.

... I'm grabbing my popcorn...

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No idea how common it was but in eras where boys didn't have the internet or porn mags as per Little House, peeping makes sense at least in the story sense. I think back then it was considered funny or humorous as well. Now those boys would be shamed on Social media.

I grew up in the 70's and 80's and can't say I ever did it or knew anyone who did it.

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Of course it was normal, and common amongst teenage boys.
Pretending otherwise is bullshit. Times have changed and such behaviour may not be acceptable, but neither is whitewashing the past.

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Not pretending to do anything. I myself am saying I did not do it nor did I know anyone who did.

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I'm saying YOU are pretending to do otherwise, I'm saying anyone who claims it only happens in movies is.

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Another dickhead.

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Hahaha!
Classic

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Just re-read my previous reply to you.
It should have read I'm NOT saying You are pretending...etc
My apologies

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when i saw these films i was very young under 5. i looked forward to my future of peeping back then.

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