I live in a highrise apartment building, surrounded by other apartment highrise buildings. I have noticed some of my neighbors are very indiscreet and do not bother to close their blinds at night. If I watch them, is this considered to be a crime? Does it matter if I use a pair of binoculars, or record them with a camcorder???
In the folklore I was fed, the original Peeping Tom was the chap who wasn’t dignified enough to turn his head when Lady Godiva made her tax protest by riding naked through town on a horse.
Now, back to your question. I’m not a lawyer, so legally you shouldn’t take my advice. What you have is a balance between indecent exposure among your neighbors and voyeurism on your part. Your neighbors can see the bank of windows that can look into their own; they’re not naive. Some of them don’t care, but the thrill of flashing fifty or sixty people is on some of their minds when they pose nude before an open window.
For practical considerations, you are less likely to be spotted as a spectator if you turn off your own lights and stay a few feet back from your own window. On the other hand, the intentional flashers and performers will be pleased, not shocked, to see you there.
Indeed. The place was Coventry and there is a statue type thing of him in the city centre there.
Wasn’t he also struck blind as a result?
I just love this forum. Where else can you get practical voyeurism advice right after a thread on kidney failure ? 
Indeed. Either by her awesome beauty or due to his sin, depending on who is telling the tale.
The OP didn’t specify that his neighbors were naked when he was looking. In my state, to be illegal the victim has to be in a place where they have a reasonable expectation of privacy, and the suspect has to be looking for the purposes of sexual gratification.
So, just looking at your neighbor eating dinner? Not a crime.
Looking at your neighbor getting out of the shower while you’re spanking the monkey? Probably illegal, but you could have a defense that they had no expectation of privacy when they leave the blinds open.
The expectation of privacy would probably also be impacted by the binoculars/naked eye distinction. If your neighbors can be seen clearly by the naked eye, then it’s probably not reasonable for them to have an expectation of privacy. But it’s not reasonable for them to expect you to use binoculars to watch them, so if you need binoculars to see them clearly, then they do have an expectation of privacy, and you could be an illegal voyeur.
Doesn’t this discriminate against myopic perverts?