Indecent Exposure [Hardcover]

John Marshall MacDonald (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 169 pages
• Publisher: Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd (June 1972)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0398025983
• ISBN-13: 978-0398025984
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,315,290 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars I read after seeing "Observe and Report.", April 27, 2009

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Jeffery Mingo (Homewood, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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Without knowing more, I would think that being flashed would be funny. However, in the film "Observe and Report," one can see how it's aggressive and made to make the viewer upset. Here too, they are examples of flashers wanting to upset women. It didn't seem victimless anymore.
On the one hand, the book is thorough. It details info on offenders, types of flashing, punishment, treatment, inter alia. However, it also had a scrapbook feel where the author seemed to just be listing info that he compiled. It often got tired to read, "Here's example one, then example two, here's a third one."
The book is also quite dated. The author calls African Americans "Negroes," gays "homosexuals," and Latino "Spanish Americans." Also, this book was made decades before the LA Riots or 9/11. So the issue of catching things on camera or via cell phones can't come up. The national increased concern about safety and fighting sneaky crimes doesn't come up.
What is funny and disturbing are the lame excuses flashers give. "I was hot, so I let my pants down." "See, she was misinterpreting things. I was just trying to tuck my shirt back in." "I took a shower and just forgot that I left my curtains open."
Like many books, the first chapter is more difficult than the rest. I am not sure if other researchers have updated the info here or if exhibitionism hasn't changed much and so experts continue to refer to this text.