411 Costs More Than Phone Sex
“SBC, Qwest, Verizon and BellSouth routinely charge $1.25 for a call to directory assistance, which lasts an average of 25 seconds. That equates to $3.00 a minute. The standard adult chat-line costs $1.99 a minute (or so we’ve heard), making it cheaper to call a girl with six-inch stiletto heels than one with a phonebook. Corporate America spent over $3 billion on directory assistance in 2004. But in an age when the cost of accessing information is going down, why do directory assistance rates continue to rise? … ‘Phone companies bury these charges in their invoices, so most businesses aren’t aware of what they’re paying. And the secret is,’ Allen continues, ‘most carriers don’t even handle their own directory assistance traffic. They outsource to an independent call center, mark it up 300%, then send you the bill.’” —Khalsa News Times (US)
Consider what this story is actually saying: useful information is more worthwhile than pornography. This is something you see plainly on the internet: porn is everywhere, so ubiquitous that spammers slam you with their unwanted emails in an effort to get you to see their little portion of it. But have you ever gotten spam from Google? Of course not. Why? Because the service Google provides is so valuable that it advertises itself. You’ll go to Google voluntarily. Whereas pornography is, relatively speaking, so valueless that it has to seduce you into its arms.
Why is that? Why is good information so much more valuable than even good porn? If you think about it, you see a fundamental point — a sort of crass implication of the disparity between body and mind. Anyone with tits and a camera can become a pornographer. Anyone with a voice and a telephone can become a phone sex operator. But do you know what sort of resources it takes to create a phone book? To create a good web directory or a genuinely useful search engine? Lots. It calls to mind that old Marxist saw about workers and the means of production. Anyone can be a porn worker. But it takes entrepreneurialism to seize hold of the means of production. And the big bucks, of course, are in the latter. Linda Lovelace, one of the most famous porn stars ever, didn’t exactly get rich from Deep Throat. But look at Hugh Hefner — owning Playboy did good things for his bottom line.
In the UK, we have a live 121 phone sex service for 60p per minute (1$ approx). How they can find girls to work at that rate I dont know. And yes, a directory call costs 63p.
Its a fair comment Barry makes im not sure how the girls make money from giving phone sex.
After the advertiser takes his/her cut and the telecoms company take theirs,there can not be a lot left for the phone sex operator I suppose if a girl is good and gets a lot of repeat customers then she can make some money.
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I think this calls for a nice little fantasy about me, a telephone book and a submissive. Hmmm… Now where should I stuff that telephone book?
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Angela
depends on how you count the cost. 411 call maybe more expensive on a min to min basis, but who calls 411 for say an hour a day? for days, weeks, months even years on end??!!
I’m a bit concerned with the flood of phone sex services priced at £0.09 per minute.
Surely the girls can’t be making much from this.
411 rates are def. out wack. But it’s not like you’re going to call a bunch of times. I just don’t see the need to call 30 times a month. If you do invest in a phone book, it’s free and cheaper.
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