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Candaulism is a fantasy, in which the husband exposes his wife, or pictures of her, to other voyeurist people for pleasure; hence the term candaulism which derives its name (proposed by Gugitz) from ancient King Candaules who made a plot to show his unaware naked wife to his servant Gyges of Lydia. Discovering Gyges while he was watching her naked, Candaules' wife ordered him to choose between killing himself or killing her husband in order to repair the vicious mischief. This 'incident' was featured in Herodotus's Histories André Gide Le Roi Candaule.

Sometimes this behavior is taken to the extreme point, allowing complete sexual relations, a practice defined by many English speaking people in the swinging subculture as cuckoldry. In certain cases the relation evolves into a stable union of three persons that is known as triolism.

Filmography

• Jules et Jim (1962, by François Truffaut) with Jeanne Moreau, Oscar Werner and Henri Serre
• Knife in the Water (Nóż w wodzie)) (1962, by Roman Polanski) with Leon Niemczyk, Jolanta Umecka, Zygmunt Malanowicz.
• Belle de Jour (1967, by Luis Buñuel), with Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel and Michel Piccoli.
• The Graduate (1967, by Mike Nichols), with Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross
• Il Merlo Maschio (1970, by Pasquale Festa Campanile), with Laura Antonelli and Lando Buzzanca
• La Dernière femme (1976, by Marco Ferreri), with Gérard Depardieu, Ornella Muti, Michel Piccoli.
• The Tin Drum (1979, by Volker Schlöndorff), with Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, David Bennent, Daniel Olbrychski, Katharina Thalbach.
• Querelle (1982, by Reiner Werner Fassbinder) with Brad Davis and Jeanne Moreau.
• Maria's Lovers (1984, by Andrei Konchalovsky) with Nastassja Kinski, John Savage and Keith Carradine
• Nine 1/2 Weeks (1986, by Adrian Lyne) with Mickey Rourke, Kim Basinger, David Margulies.
• Henry and June (1990, by Philip Kaufman), with Fred Ward, Uma Thurman, Maria de Medeiros.
• Bitter Moon (Lunes de fiel) (1992, by Roman Polanski), with Hugh Grant, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emmanuelle Seigner , Peter Coyote.

See also

• Amateur pornography
• Cuckoldry
• Droit de seigneur
• Exhibitionism
• Indecent exposure
• List of public outdoor clothes free places
• Naturism
• Open marriage
• Polyamory
• Public nudity
• Sexually liberal feminism
• Voyeurism