Women were not always the objects of spying; they were also the perpetrators. In 1759 the Necessaire published, "Curiosity being equal in the two sexes, and the ladies loving almost as well as ourselves to draw near to them such objects as appear interesting to them, a means of satisfying this desire without wounding modesty has been imagined; an opera-glass is set in the chief sticks of a Fan, of which ladies may make use without compromising themselves."