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== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''Then Again, Maybe I Won't'', a 1971 young adult novel written by [[Judy Blume]], a boy discovers the girl next door likes to undress in front of the window. So he asks for some binoculars for Christmas for "bird watching" from his parents.
* Subverted in ''[[Alas, Babylon]]''. Mrs. Henry assumes her neighbor Randall is ogling her through his binoculars, but it turns out he's really watching her pet lovebirds, which he thinks are Carolina Parakeets, which went extinct some 40 years before the events of the story.
* In "The Sandman" by [[E. T. A. Hoffmann|ETA Hoffmann]], excessively romantic student Nathanael purchased a telescope specifically to watch an enigmatic girl in the neighbour's window and quickly fell for her head over heels. To {{spoiler|buy it from the creepy merchant whom he suspected in being the evil alchemist who killed his father}} perhaps wasn't a good idea, though.
* [[Robert Westall]]'s ''[[Futuretrack Five]]'' has the Ests who spy on the Fens population via listening devices and binoculars whilst pretending to be birdwatchers.
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== [[Tabletop RPG]] ==
* ''[[Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game)]]'' supplement ''The Asylum and Other Tales'', adventure "The Auction". An astronomer has a telescope in his apartment which he uses for his secret hobby, voyeurism.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[The Sims|The Sims 2]]'' sims using a telescope during the daytime will sometimes spy on a neighbourhood sim, who will get mad and come over and slap them.
* One of the ways to recover health in ''[[Silent Scope]]'' is to use your rifle's scope to spy on sunbathing females.
* ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'' features a telescope, obtained in an [http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Fernswarthy%27s_Basement optional dungeon], which can be used to either look at the stars for a stat boost or look at the [[Big Bad|Naughty Sorceress]]'s tower to see what monsters it has.
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