$4 a minute for fetishes: How the 1-900 phone-sex industry changed America

From nypost.com

During the 1980s and ’90s, Americans let their fingers do the walking — and then some. It was the era of phone sex: 1-900 numbers that horndogs called, paying $4 or $5 a minute, to play out their fantasies with a real, live woman on the other end of the line. Not that you necessarily got what you imagined. Callers could request their dream girl — a busty blonde or a leather-loving brunette, for example. What they didn’t know was that phone-sex operators, tipped off seconds before the calls began, portrayed themselves to match the requests. That skinny redhead with a taste for spanking might actually be an ... (full story)