Editing Voyeurism (section)

==Prevalence==
Voyeurism has high prevalence rates in most studied populations. Voyeurism was once believed to only be present in a small portion of the population. This perception changed when [[Alfred Kinsey]] discovered that 30% of men prefer coitus with the lights on.<ref name="pmid15204808" /> This behaviour is not considered voyeurism by modern diagnostic standards, but there was little differentiation between normal and pathological behaviour at the time. Subsequent research showed that 65% of men had engaged in peeping, which suggests that this behaviour is widely spread throughout the population.<ref name="pmid15204808" /> Congruent with this, research found voyeurism to be the most common sexual law-breaking behaviour in both clinical and general populations.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dsm5.org/Documents/Sex%20and%20GID%20Lit%20Reviews/Paraphilias/LANGSTROMDSM.pdf|title=The DSM Diagnostic Criteria for Exhibitionism, Voyeurism, and Frotteurism|publisher=Niklas Langstrom|access-date=2013-04-04|archive-date=2013-05-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130512075633/http://www.dsm5.org/Documents/Sex%20and%20GID%20Lit%20Reviews/Paraphilias/LANGSTROMDSM.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>
An earlier study, based on 60 college men from a rural area, indicates that 54% had voyeuristic fantasies, and that 42% had tried voyeurism, concluding that young men are more easily aroused by the idea.<ref name="pmid2064539">{{cite journal |doi=10.1007/BF01541940 |title=Patterns of sexual arousal and history in a ?normal? Sample of young men |year=1991 |last1=Templeman |first1=Terrel L. |last2=Stinnett |first2=Ray D. |journal=Archives of Sexual Behavior |volume=20 |issue=2 |pages=137–50 |pmid=2064539|s2cid=7570236 }}</ref>

In a national study of Sweden it was found that 7.7% of the population (16% of men and 4% of women) had engaged in voyeurism at some point.<ref name="pmid16900414">{{cite journal |doi=10.1007/s10508-006-9042-6 |title=Exhibitionistic and Voyeuristic Behavior in a Swedish National Population Survey |year=2006 |last1=Långström |first1=Niklas |last2=Seto |first2=Michael C. |journal=Archives of Sexual Behavior |volume=35 |issue=4 |pages=427–35 |pmid=16900414|s2cid=23685766 }}</ref> It is also believed that voyeurism occurs up to 150 times more frequently than police reports indicate.<ref name="pmid16900414" /> This same study also indicates that there are high levels of co-occurrence between voyeurism and exhibitionism, finding that 63% of voyeurs also report exhibitionist behaviour.<ref name="pmid16900414" />