the phone sex industry

[ed miliband]

channel 4 (uk) has a documentary about girls working in the phone sex industry (partly filmed in the city i currently live in aha) and it seems to pay pretty well and you can work from wherever whenever you want

would you consider phone sex work? it seems like it could be a laugh and as i said - good money and no boss or place of work (one of the girls does it sitting in the park or walking to uni etc)

so yeah - the stripper thread started a whole lot of shit with prudes - what do they think of the phone sex industry?

[Franz Fanonipants]

some dudes just can't get off w/out spending money i guess

[NewLeft]

phone sex while walking to uni..?

how would you charge your clients?

[ed miliband]

phone sex while walking to uni..?

how would you charge your clients?

i dunno the arrangements to be honest - tho i'm tempted to research to get a foothold in the industry (tho i dunno if males are in big demand for it?)

[NewLeft]

i dunno the arrangements to be honest - tho i'm tempted to research to get a foothold in the industry (tho i dunno if males are in big demand for it?)
surely there's some old fifes looking for some phone action

[The Douche]

Have a friend who did this, it really didn't pay that well, she is a cam girl now. She had to log at least 35 hours a week, and had to have a landline phone for it. She hated having to sleep all day and stay up all night and not being able to do anything or spend time with her kid.

She also got in some trouble cause she blew up on a client who had a rape/incest fantasy.

[ed miliband]

Have a friend who did this, it really didn't pay that well, she is a cam girl now. She had to log at least 35 hours a week, and had to have a landline phone for it. She hated having to sleep all day and stay up all night and not being able to do anything or spend time with her kid.

She also got in some trouble cause she blew up on a client who had a rape/incest fantasy.

some first time girl on the doc was claiming £50 quid a call (and it's what i live on a week - or attempt to) so yeah - it ain't gold but it's good enough

[The Douche]

some first time girl on the doc was claiming £50 quid a call (and it's what i live on a week - or attempt to) so yeah - it ain't gold but it's good enough

My friend was making essentially a salary, she got X amount for her 35 hour week. Honestly, if homegirl is making that much from a single call, she might be entertaining some pretty fucked up calls.

[ed miliband]

the dude wanted her to control how he smoked his cigarette or something - that was it

but yeah i imagine fetish stuff pays much more - most agencies have rules about what is spoken about tho i think

[The Douche]

the dude wanted her to control how he smoked his cigarette or something - that was it

but yeah i imagine fetish stuff pays much more - most agencies have rules about what is spoken about tho i think

They do, rape and incest were not included in the shit she had to entertain, but that doesn't stop people from trying it, and she flipped on the dude, and there happened to be a auditor listening in on the call, so she got in trouble for her reaction.

[gorillafuck]

of course it is work.

being a cam girl 35 hours a week would suck so bad.

[GoddessCleoLover]

I agree with Franz Fanoninpants. I never thought that I would live to see the day that porn was free (tube sites).

And of course it is work. At the risk of reviving another thread, if one does phone sex work for a wage-type payment then the work is proletarian in nature. If one something like free lance web cam for customers the work is petit-bourgeois in nature since the workers is also the owner of the enterprise, small is it may be. These are not moral judgments, merely class analysis based upon how one relates to the means of production.

[Ostrinski]

I can hardly imagine anyone really enjoying this line of work.

[GoddessCleoLover]

Speaking as a dude, catering to dude's sexual fantasies has to be among the top ten most difficult lines of work.

[Veovis]

Speaking as a dude, catering to dude's sexual fantasies has to be among the top ten most difficult lines of work.

Speaking as a homosexual, I disagree.

[zoot_allures]

Speaking as a dude, catering to dude's sexual fantasies has to be among the top ten most difficult lines of work.
I'm a dude - a mostly straight dude - and I don't think it would bother me a whole lot. It's only over the phone, after all.

I'm not just guessing how I'd react; I have some experience with this kind of thing. A few times on sites like omegle, I've pretended to be a female, and catered to a load of weird sexual fantasies there (I was interested in how easy it would be to find people who fantasized about really weird stuff... turns out it's remarkably easy). I suppose it would seem a bit more "real" actually talking to someone over the phone, but I doubt it would bother me. Rather, I'd probably find it quite interesting, since I find sexuality in general interesting. I like to learn about other people's sexuality, whether I'm attracted to them or not.

[GoddessCleoLover]

Gentlemen, I appreciate your point of view, as they say chacun a son gout. Nonetheless, ti does seem to me that this is a classical example of the alienation of labor since one party is essentially role-playing to help actualize another person's sexual fantasy.

[NewLeft]

I'm a dude - a mostly straight dude - and I don't think it would bother me a whole lot. It's only over the phone, after all.

I'm not just guessing how I'd react; I have some experience with this kind of thing. A few times on sites like omegle, I've pretended to be a female, and catered to a load of weird sexual fantasies there (I was interested in how easy it would be to find people who fantasized about really weird stuff... turns out it's remarkably easy). I suppose it would seem a bit more "real" actually talking to someone over the phone, but I doubt it would bother me. Rather, I'd probably find it quite interesting, since I find sexuality in general interesting. I like to learn about other people's sexuality, whether I'm attracted to them or not.
Well, I mean, 99% of the people on omegle are trolls.

[gorillafuck]

A few times on sites like omegle, I've pretended to be a female, and catered to a load of weird sexual fantasies there...

....

word.

[blake 3:17]

I didn`t know it was still going. Had a friend who did it in the late 90s, where it was in a call centre telemarketing type set up. Wages were awful but more than minimum. Most didn`t last long.


and you can work from wherever whenever you want

This can weirder and sketchier. I`ve done some waged telecommuting work and the supposed freedom it brings mostly doesn`t live up. There ends up being a lot of hanging around by yourself, or trying to find somewhere semi-private at home or out.

From a basic socialist perspective, schemes like these mean you don`t meet your co-workers and may be legally disqualified from communicating with them (if you can even figure out who they might be) and you need to provide a meaningful portion of the means of production communication.

[Prometeo liberado]

some dudes just can't get off w/out spending money i guess

Why does it have to be only dudes?

[GoddessCleoLover]

Blake 3:17 is right, as I knew a woman back in the 90s who did phone sex from her home and was required to install a second telephone line. From the point of view of the owners the term sex business definitely emphasizes BUSINESS.

[zoot_allures]

Well, I mean, 99% of the people on omegle are trolls.
Yeah, sure. It's not like I'm trying get my findings published in a psychology journal or anything, haha. Maybe all the people I spoke to were just putting on acts as well, and were not really turned on by the stuff we were saying.

[Franz Fanonipants]

Why does it have to be only dudes?

patriarchy and capitalism gtfo

[human strike]

Death to sex and all basic human desires! Commodify that shit, amirite? Yet again the spectacle reveals its intense hatred for sex through the weapon of pornography.