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Did phone sex operators stars get million dollar incomes in the 70s and 80s? Was it a 10 digits industry then?

• vasco 2y ago
  Globally probably - since now it is bigger. Have a look at Teleholding in the netherlands as an example, they printed money mostly with recordings not even people on the other side.
• KaiserPro 2y ago
  The company owners did. But the phone operators were (to my understanding) reasonably well paid. However income dropped off with the introduction of video chat(first on sky TV, then internets). One of my former colleagues bought a flat in london with the proceeds from their dancing in night clubs. Which I thought at the time, and still do, is might impressive. They keep that private, for a number of sadly obvious reasons, however they are not ashamed of it. They refused video chat, because it was less protected, and less anonymous. In a (good) club, you are protected by bouncers, no phones, no intimidation. OF and the rest you have limited control on who shares your stuff, so its much harder to be a part time model.
• Barrin92 2y ago
  >Was it a 10 digits industry then? Apparently so. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phone_sex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phone_sex) "By the end of the 1980s, nearly all of the major local phone companies in the United States, plus the major long-distance carriers, were actively involved in the phone sex business[...] In 2002 profits from phone sex were estimated at one billion dollars a year" And in relative terms in particular that seems pretty huge given how much smaller all the phone and online markets were compared to what they're now.
  • namaria 2y ago
    > And in relative terms Well the comparative change is kinda the point. OF is huge and content producers have a chance of making big bucks, as opposed to what was there before