We learned in elementary school that Alexander Graham Bell is credited with inventing the telephone and the very first telephone call made on March 10, 1876, involved reciting among other things Mary Had a Little Lamb. The joke is that after making the first phone call, Bell hung up, called his wife and made the very first phone sex call. It’s a cruel “joke” when you consider that Mr. Bell’s work was largely influenced by his mother and wife both of whom were deaf. For obvious reasons Bell never spoke to his wife over the telephone.
Granted as the telephone gained popularity I imagine over the years at some point someone would ask the proverbial question, “What are you wearing?” and naughty chat would ensue. However, phone sex as we know it today e.g., a commercial enterprise, did not come to fruition until 100 years after the first telephone call was placed.
Telephony.
As is the case with any new technology it takes time for the masses to accept, understand and access it. The first purchasers of the telephone were organizations – businesses, hospitals, and the police. Telephones were popularized in movies and newspaper ads. As lines were buried and made available the most affluent Americans added a telephone service to their homes. By the middle of the 20th century, most Americans had access to a telephone at home or within their neighborhood. The only people who were left out of this new wave of communication were the poor and destitute. Being without a phone left these people vulnerable should they have an emergency and needed an ambulance or the police. It’s somewhat funny to think we cannot commit to universal health care today but back in 1934 we committed to universal phone service and continue to maintain that commitment by providing low-income Americans a cell phone and 70 free minutes every month which was signed into law by former President George W. Bush and paid for by the telephone companies.
For businesses, telephone services changed dramatically. First, in 1967 there was the introduction of the toll-free or 1-800 number and 4 years later in 1971 the introduction of the 1-900 number. After the AT&T monopoly was broken up in 1984 the 1-900 service was changed into what it is today – a premium rate service. Once the baby Bells became autonomous we saw a lot more competition, flexibility, and creativity in terms of how these services would be used in business particularly the adult entertainment business. At the forefront of these changes were the folks at High Society, who pioneered the phone sex industry.
The Birth of Phone Sex.
Gloria Leonard was the first female publisher of a men’s magazine aka skin magazine. She was the HBIC (head bitch in charge) from 1977 to 1991. During that time High Society invented phone sex. It started out innocently enough. That month’s model would read a script and record an audio clip. The magazine’s subscribers would pay a certain amount a minute to listen to the clip. Naturally, if the guys would pay to hear a recording they would most certainly pay to actually talk to the woman on the other end. Within a year High Society developed a new form of adult entertainment logging more than 30,000 calls a day and bringing in a cool half-million dollars a month.
Now keep in mind this was about a decade before the internet. The only way to obtain these phone sex numbers would be to peruse the advertisements in a skin magazine or visit an adult bookstore. The bookstore option was only viable if you lived in a large city and had access to a bookstore which was usually relegated to the seedier parts of town. For the most part, the only way anyone could access these numbers was if you had a copy of a dirty magazine. The internet changed all of that.
In 1996 domains literally were given away. Some of the first domains were adult in nature and several phone sex operators who worked for the larger companies started their own businesses with different rules. These female entrepreneurs were quite fortunate because the timing was perfect – the technology was both scalable and affordable. No longer did one have to pay outrageous prices to simply set-up a 1-800 or 1-900 number not to mention the steep per-minute prices and connection charges. With the internet, phone sex was no longer an ad in the back of a skin magazine but an independent service. Now instead of having to clock in to a call center, would-be phone sex operators could truly “work” from the comfort of their homes.
Some of the first “phone sex operator turned phone sex owner” business leaders made a few other changes such as using the real pictures of the women answering the calls. Digital cameras enabled more women to make their own boudoir pictures thus saving thousands of dollars on professional photographs. As bandwidth became more affordable many phone sex companies added a cam to their service offers and then there’s sexting. As I have stated before, phone sex is an art that keeps evolving as the technology allows and you – the customer – demands.
Whew! We have come a long way 😉
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