Journalist Gay Talese was first contacted by Foos in 1980 when he wrote him a letter and said: 'Sexually, I have witnessed, observed, and studied the best first hand, unrehearsed, non-laboratory sex between couples, and most other conceivable sex deviations during these past 15 years.'įoos was inspired to get in touch after hearing about Talese's coast-to-coast study of sex in America - 'Thy Neighbor's Wife' - and felt they shared similar interests. For more than two decades, a Colorado motel owner secretly watched hundreds, maybe even thousands, of guests have sex in his rooms as both of his wives supported him.īeginning in the winter of 1966, Gerald Foos outfitted more than a dozen rooms with fake ceiling vents at Manor House Motel in Aurora, Colorado, so that he could secretly watch his guests have sex.
