Voyeur Page #2

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which will be included

in Thy Neighbor's Wife,

I feel I have information

that I could contribute to its contents,

"or to contents of future books."

This letter goes on.

Finally said, "If you're interested,

here's my address."

Surely, this was a kind of guy

I wanted to know more about.

I have so much respect for Gay.

We have a great relationship,

and a trusting relationship.

To me, he was like a god.

Mr. Talese is one of America's

proudest possessions.

As an author,

he wrote The Power and the Glory,

a story inside the New York Times.

You wrote the mafia book,

Honor Thy Father.

- How am I doing?

- It's correct.

Now you're back

with Thy Neighbor's Wife,

an eight-year study

of sexuality in America.

This will be the most talked about book

of the decade.

You were visiting

a place called Sandstone?

It's a nudist commune in Los Angeles.

You actually watched people

and all that stuff?

More than that. I mean...

You know the jokes you'll

face as you start the talk show rounds.

Starting here.

I became a resident writer

in a sexually free society.

We got to have sex with other people.

How did it affect

your sexual life at home?

Was it...

My wife was very unhappy,

as you can imagine.

We have daughters.

We're known in our community.

It seemed like I was doing

a reprehensible thing.

Say hello to Nan Talese. Mrs. Talese.

What I really minded

was the press about it.

And I wanted to protect

Catherine and Pamela,

and not have it hurt them.

I thought of myself at the front door,

with my arms just not letting them

into our house.

Is that about it for Gay's sex research?

It's not up to me. A person does

what he feels is right to do.

I sold my soul, if you wanna put it

that way. I don't care.

I wanted the story.

I would've done anything for it.

I felt I had to do it.

I had to go on the record.

I was there. I was participating.

I wasn't sitting in the press box

with a press card around my naked body.

For me, it wasn't a big thing,

'cause I had always had

this second sense of self.

I wanted the truth, and in this book,

being a nonfiction writer, a reporter,

I got the truth.

How do you get the truth?

You have to participate, to be there.

You can't listen to what people say.

It's what they do.

In 1980...

I flew out to see him.

I wanted to be sure

this guy wasn't lying to me.

As a guest of the voyeur,

I was gonna be a companion of the voyeur.

I went up one night and did watch.

He said, "I'll take you up."

Through the utility room,

you go up to the ladder

and you get to a landing.

You go back, and there's a locked door.

That's the door to the attic,

and only he had the key.

We went inside.

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