Phone hook-up

Phone lovemaking is a conversation inbetween two or more people on the phone where one or more of the individuals is describing the act of lovemaking.

Phone lovemaking takes imagination on both parties’ part; virtual hook-up is difficult if the operator does not put the pics in the head of the caller and the caller must be open to the pleasure as well. The sexually explicit conversation takes place inbetween two or more persons via telephone, especially when at least one of the participants masturbates or engages in sexual fantasy.

Phone hook-up conversation may take many forms, including: guided fantasy, sexual sounds, narrated and enacted suggestions; sexual anecdotes and confessions; candid expression of sexual fantasies, feelings, or love, and/or discussion of very private and sensitive sexual topics.

Once means of transmitting payment were developed, phone hook-up turned into primarily a commercial activity, with customers (overwhelmingly masculine) and sellers (overwhelmingly female).

Phone hook-up does not involve physical contact inbetween those participating in it. Couples may choose to engage in phone hook-up when the inconvenience of distance makes physical intimity inopportune. [1]

Due to the potential for emotional intimity inbetween those who have engaged in phone hook-up, it is a matter of some debate whether phone lovemaking is to be considered infidelity when involving a person outside of a committed private relationship. Nevertheless, phone hookup should not be confused with prostitution wherein money is exchanged for real life sexual services or physical interaction.

Origin Edit

The editor of High Society magazine, Gloria Leonard, is credited with being one of the very first people to use "976 numbers", then "900 numbers" for promotional purposes and soon as a revenue stream in the adult industry. [Two] [Trio] Leonard recorded her own voice informing callers of the contents of the next issue of High Society magazine before its publication. Later she recorded others such as Annie Sprinkle "talking sexy". Leonard coaxed magazine possessor Carl Ruderman to purchase more of these numbers and the business began to be successful using the magazine to promote the service. [Trio] Leonard herself was astonished at the success of these numbers.

Operation Edit

Originally phone hook-up services consisted of a managed network of dispatchers (live or automated) and erotic performers. Performers would come to a studio where they received a cubicle, coaching, and cash incentives to keep callers on the line longer. This is the world portrayed in Spike Lee’s movie about phone hookup, Chick 6. At that time independent phone hookup was more dangerous, as Lee’s movie portrays.

With the progress of technology it became more practical, convenient, and economical for providers to work out of their homes. Human dispatchers — female, except for gay masculine phone hook-up — answered the advertised phone numbers, processed payment via credit card, chose who of the available performers in the dispatcher’s judgment best matched the clients’ fantasy (grandma, black woman, college female, etc.), and connected the client with the provider. The caller could not see the performer’s number. Either could drape up, however some services put economic pressure on providers not to do so.

Originally, per-minute billing was provided by phone companies (in the U.S., using 976, then nine hundred numbers). There was, from some services, an attempt to keep the caller sexually aroused but brief of orgasm, so he would spend more money. (This attitude still survives among some providers.) When public (mostly female) pressure coerced the phone companies to stop providing this service to lovemaking workers, a transition was made to a manual method: pre-paid blocks of time, Ten, 30, sixty minutes, whatever the customer would pay for. The incentives for providers were then reversed; rather than earning money from keeping the customer on the line (orgasm delayed), they earned more from bringing the caller to orgasm quickly, so as to budge on rapidly to another call. Unused minutes were uncommonly usable on a 2nd call. The provider provided (say) ten minutes of service, but got to keep all of the money (say twenty minutes).

When the Internet got relatively mature, sale of any sexual service not involving a minor could be made to anyone not a minor. Software platforms were custom-built written to treat money collection and transfer, connecting caller and hook-up worker tho’ neither could see anything but the platform’s phone number, and metering the connection. Details vary significantly from one platform to another, but the provider may be given a individual page on the platform to use however she (sometimes he) wishes. All have some way for a provider to post a picture and some text. Big platforms as of two thousand sixteen are Niteflirt, TalktoMe, and My Phone Site; [ citation needed ] the latter also includes provision by which a manager, with the consent of the providers, could have a virtual shop with many providers under them. Foreign (non-US) customers were courted. Customers had a diversity of payment options, and pages of providers to choose from, sometimes with voice samples available. In concept they have a lot in common with platforms such as Ebay: the seller provides the picture(s), description, and sets the price, a percentage of which is kept by the platform. In the hookup industry, similar platforms emerged facilitating the selling of used undies and other odoriferous garments, and for "cam" movie sessions, in which the customer, for a fee, can direct the woman on the movie screen, and for a higher fee, have a private connection (no one can see caller or provider except each other). [Four]

United States Edit

By the end of the 1980s, almost all of the major local phone companies in the United States, plus the major long distance carriers, were actively involved in the adult talk line business. The telephone companies would provide billing services for talk line companies. Typically the telephone companies would bill callers to talk lines and then remit 45% of the money collected to talk line operators. The telephone companies placed the talk line charges on a customers local phone bill. If a customer disputed a charge, the telephone company would usually “forgive” the charge but block the caller from calling any other talk lines.

By two thousand seven only Verizon, Sprint and AT&T remained in the talk line business in the U.S. By two thousand seven Verizon and MCI had merged and only a few talk line companies remained active as a result. Verizon provided billing services to calls made in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Maine. AT&T and MCI suggested nationwide collection services, with a cap of $50 per call. [Five]

In two thousand two profits from phone hook-up were estimated at one billion dollars a year. [6] In two thousand seven the group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington estimated that phone hook-up earned U.S. telephone companies close to $500 million per year. [7]

The vast majority of modern services in the United States use toll-free numbers whereby clients can dial up to request a call with a particular performer using credit cards, Automated Clearing House systems, and a diversity of other billing methods. There are still some services that rely upon premium-rate telephone numbers (e.g., nine hundred seventy six and nine hundred numbers) for billing purposes, albeit this practice has been largely abandoned due to the high rate of fraud associated with these lines and the inability to dial nine hundred and nine hundred seventy six lines from cellular phones. As a direct result, most telephone companies permit their customers to block outgoing calls to premium-rate telephone numbers. In 1996, the FCC switched regulations on nine hundred numbers to address manhandle of these services by minors and fraud concerns.

Independent phone hookup operators engage in self-promotion. This self-promotion can involve a personalized website where the phone lovemaking performer lists their specialties and services, engaging prospects in social media, various methods of advertising (via the traditional methods listed below, or on organized third-party network sites that provide a basic level of privacy for performer and client alike) and/or surfing of sexually themed talk rooms for interested clients.

Phone hookup service providers typically advertise their services in studs’s magazines, in pornographic magazines and movies, on late-night cable television, and online. Some phone hookup services use state-of-the-art customer acquisition mechanisms such as active database marketing to reach potential clients. These advertising methods almost invariably target studs, the primary consumers of phone hook-up services.

The major phone hookup and adult talk lines spend millions of dollars in advertising every month. Thanks to technology, their marketing departments can track the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns by assigning unique phone numbers to each advertising campaign, regardless if it includes TV, print, online or a combination of all these. Unique numbers might either be toll-free 1-800 numbers or local access numbers in order to accommodate callers who have been targeted in a local advertising campaign. Phone lovemaking services will usually list all the local numbers on their websites. Assigning unique phone numbers to each advertising channel permits phone talk companies to measure not only the number of calls that each channel generates but also the price per call, conversion rate, and come back on investment. This information can be further analyzed to determine key insights such as the most and least profitable caller’s demographics, best and worst times to advertise and ultimately which advertising channels to invest more in and which ones to cut.

United Kingdom Edit

Phone hookup lines appeared in the UK in the 1980s using premium-rate telephone numbers for adult services with sexual content, with many of the lines playing gauze recordings. The phone lovemaking market in the UK is closely linked to the pornographic magazine market, and advertising for such services often provides a vital element of a magazine’s revenue. Up to a quarter of the page length of some magazines may be faithful to such advertisements. [8] Advertising in newspapers, which had been common in the 1980s, was ended as a result of regulatory switches in one thousand nine hundred ninety four which restricted advertisements to top-shelf adult magazines. At the same time rules were introduced requiring the user to pro-actively opt-in by requesting a pin number. This dramatically diminished the number of calls, and the proportion of the income generated by premium-rate telephone numbers which was associated with adult services fell from 18% in one thousand nine hundred ninety two to 1% in 1996. During the 1990s many companies began to re-route their traffic abroad in an attempt to circumvent the regulations. The industry took to operating from forty countries worldwide, commonly Guyana and the Caribbean. In one thousand nine hundred ninety five the income generated in this way was $Two billion. The regulations also led to an increase in the use of live call-back services paid by credit cards, which did not fall under the regulator’s jurisdiction because they did not use premium-rate numbers. [9] By two thousand nine the proportion of the UK population that had used phone lovemaking lines was 45%, according to a survey by Durex. By two thousand thirteen there were over Two,000 phone lovemaking companies in the UK. Most phone lovemaking workers are recruited through word of mouth or the internet as the companies are widely prohibited from advertising in mass media. The number of female university students working for phone hook-up lines in the UK doubled inbetween two thousand eleven and 2013, according to a BBC-commissioned investigation. [Ten] The industry’s regulatory assets PhonepayPlus (formerly ICSTIC) monitors and enforces specific community standards in terms of content and price for premium rate numbers.

Legality Edit

The legality of phone hook-up businesses was challenged by the U.S. Federal government in July one thousand nine hundred eighty eight with the passage of the Telephone Decency Act, which made it a crime to use a "telephone . directly or by recording device" to make "any obscene or indecent communication for commercial purposes to any person," punishable by a $50,000 fine or six months in prison." At the time the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was responsible for policing nine hundred numbers for obscenity and indecency. [Three]

Sable Communications of California filed suit against the FCC in federal court to overturn the Telephone Decency Act. On July Nineteen, 1988, U.S. District Judge A. Wallace Tashima ruled that "the prohibition against ‘indecent speech’ on 900-number recordings was unconstitutional, tho’ its ban on ‘obscene speech’ could stand." [Three]

On June 23, 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that obscene speech, even in commercial telephone calls, was not protected, tho’ indecent speech was. Justice Byron White wrote for the high court’s majority

There is no constitutional barrier under Miller to prohibiting communications that are obscene in some communities under local standards even tho’ they are not obscene in others." "Sable, which has the cargo of serving with the prohibition, is free to tailor its messages, on a selective basis, to the communities it chooses to serve. [Three]

Workers Edit

A phone lovemaking worker is a type of hook-up worker and pornographic actor, sometimes referred to as a "phone hookup operator," "fantasy artist," "adult phone entertainer," "audio erotic performer," or any one of other monikers. The most valued attributes of a phone lovemaking professional are his or her voice, acting and sexual roleplay abilities, along with the experienced capability to discern and react appropriately to a broad spectrum of customer requests. [11] [12]

Online companies Edit

Several online companies provide Internet-based phone lovemaking lines. These services enable callers to post profiles of themselves and then engage in VOIP-based and other types of online lovemaking.

Phone hookup

Phone lovemaking

Phone lovemaking is a conversation inbetween two or more people on the phone where one or more of the individuals is describing the act of hook-up.

Phone hookup takes imagination on both parties’ part; virtual hookup is difficult if the operator does not put the pictures in the head of the caller and the caller must be open to the pleasure as well. The sexually explicit conversation takes place inbetween two or more persons via telephone, especially when at least one of the participants masturbates or engages in sexual fantasy.

Once means of transmitting payment were developed, phone lovemaking turned into primarily a commercial activity, with customers (overwhelmingly masculine) and sellers (overwhelmingly female).

Phone hookup does not involve physical contact inbetween those participating in it. Couples may choose to engage in phone hook-up when the inconvenience of distance makes physical intimity inopportune. [1]

Due to the potential for emotional proximity inbetween those who have engaged in phone hookup, it is a matter of some debate whether phone hook-up is to be considered infidelity when involving a person outside of a committed individual relationship. Nevertheless, phone hookup should not be confused with prostitution wherein money is exchanged for real life sexual services or physical interaction.

Origin Edit

The editor of High Society magazine, Gloria Leonard, is credited with being one of the very first people to use "976 numbers", then "900 numbers" for promotional purposes and soon as a revenue stream in the adult industry. [Two] [Three] Leonard recorded her own voice informing callers of the contents of the next issue of High Society magazine before its publication. Later she recorded others such as Annie Sprinkle "talking sexy". Leonard wooed magazine possessor Carl Ruderman to purchase more of these numbers and the business began to be successful using the magazine to promote the service. [Trio] Leonard herself was astonished at the success of these numbers.

Operation Edit

Originally phone lovemaking services consisted of a managed network of dispatchers (live or automated) and erotic performers. Performers would come to a studio where they received a cubicle, coaching, and cash incentives to keep callers on the line longer. This is the world portrayed in Spike Lee’s movie about phone hook-up, Damsel 6. At that time independent phone hook-up was more dangerous, as Lee’s movie portrays.

With the progress of technology it became more practical, convenient, and economical for providers to work out of their homes. Human dispatchers — female, except for gay masculine phone hook-up — answered the advertised phone numbers, processed payment via credit card, chose who of the available performers in the dispatcher’s judgment best matched the clients’ fantasy (grandma, black woman, college chick, etc.), and connected the client with the provider. The caller could not see the performer’s number. Either could dangle up, tho’ some services put economic pressure on providers not to do so.

Originally, per-minute billing was provided by phone companies (in the U.S., using 976, then nine hundred numbers). There was, from some services, an attempt to keep the caller sexually aroused but brief of orgasm, so he would spend more money. (This attitude still survives among some providers.) When public (mostly female) pressure coerced the phone companies to stop providing this service to hook-up workers, a transition was made to a manual method: pre-paid blocks of time, Ten, 30, sixty minutes, whatever the customer would pay for. The incentives for providers were then reversed; rather than earning money from keeping the customer on the line (orgasm delayed), they earned more from bringing the caller to orgasm quickly, so as to budge on rapidly to another call. Unused minutes were uncommonly usable on a 2nd call. The provider provided (say) ten minutes of service, but got to keep all of the money (say twenty minutes).

When the Internet got relatively mature, sale of any sexual service not involving a minor could be made to anyone not a minor. Software platforms were custom-built written to treat money collection and transfer, connecting caller and lovemaking worker however neither could see anything but the platform’s phone number, and metering the connection. Details vary significantly from one platform to another, but the provider may be given a individual page on the platform to use however she (sometimes he) wishes. All have some way for a provider to post a picture and some text. Big platforms as of two thousand sixteen are Niteflirt, TalktoMe, and My Phone Site; [ citation needed ] the latter also includes provision by which a manager, with the consent of the providers, could have a virtual shop with many providers under them. Foreign (non-US) customers were courted. Customers had a multiplicity of payment options, and pages of providers to choose from, sometimes with voice samples available. In concept they have a lot in common with platforms such as Ebay: the seller provides the picture(s), description, and sets the price, a percentage of which is kept by the platform. In the lovemaking industry, similar platforms emerged facilitating the selling of used undies and other odoriferous garments, and for "cam" movie sessions, in which the customer, for a fee, can direct the woman on the movie screen, and for a higher fee, have a private connection (no one can see caller or provider except each other). [Four]

United States Edit

In two thousand two profits from phone hook-up were estimated at one billion dollars a year. [6] In two thousand seven the group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington estimated that phone lovemaking earned U.S. telephone companies close to $500 million per year. [7]

The vast majority of modern services in the United States use toll-free numbers whereby clients can dial up to request a call with a particular performer using credit cards, Automated Clearing House systems, and a multitude of other billing methods. There are still some services that rely upon premium-rate telephone numbers (e.g., nine hundred seventy six and nine hundred numbers) for billing purposes, albeit this practice has been largely abandoned due to the high rate of fraud associated with these lines and the inability to dial nine hundred and nine hundred seventy six lines from cellular phones. As a direct result, most telephone companies permit their customers to block outgoing calls to premium-rate telephone numbers. In 1996, the FCC switched regulations on nine hundred numbers to address manhandle of these services by minors and fraud concerns.

Independent phone hookup operators engage in self-promotion. This self-promotion can involve a personalized website where the phone hook-up performer lists their specialties and services, engaging prospects in social media, various methods of advertising (via the traditional methods listed below, or on organized third-party network sites that provide a basic level of privacy for performer and client alike) and/or surfing of sexually themed talk rooms for interested clients.

Phone hookup service providers typically advertise their services in guys’s magazines, in pornographic magazines and movies, on late-night cable television, and online. Some phone lovemaking services use state-of-the-art customer acquisition technics such as active database marketing to reach potential clients. These advertising methods almost invariably target boys, the primary consumers of phone hook-up services.

The major phone hookup and adult talk lines spend millions of dollars in advertising every month. Thanks to technology, their marketing departments can track the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns by assigning unique phone numbers to each advertising campaign, regardless if it includes TV, print, online or a combination of all these. Unique numbers might either be toll-free 1-800 numbers or local access numbers in order to accommodate callers who have been targeted in a local advertising campaign. Phone hookup services will usually list all the local numbers on their websites. Assigning unique phone numbers to each advertising channel permits phone talk companies to measure not only the number of calls that each channel generates but also the price per call, conversion rate, and comeback on investment. This information can be further analyzed to determine key insights such as the most and least profitable caller’s demographics, best and worst times to advertise and ultimately which advertising channels to invest more in and which ones to cut.

United Kingdom Edit

Phone lovemaking lines appeared in the UK in the 1980s using premium-rate telephone numbers for adult services with sexual content, with many of the lines playing gauze recordings. The phone hook-up market in the UK is closely linked to the pornographic magazine market, and advertising for such services often provides a vital element of a magazine’s revenue. Up to a quarter of the page length of some magazines may be faithful to such advertisements. [8] Advertising in newspapers, which had been common in the 1980s, was ended as a result of regulatory switches in one thousand nine hundred ninety four which restricted advertisements to top-shelf adult magazines. At the same time rules were introduced requiring the user to pro-actively opt-in by requesting a pin number. This dramatically diminished the number of calls, and the proportion of the income generated by premium-rate telephone numbers which was associated with adult services fell from 18% in one thousand nine hundred ninety two to 1% in 1996. During the 1990s many companies began to re-route their traffic abroad in an attempt to circumvent the regulations. The industry took to operating from forty countries worldwide, commonly Guyana and the Caribbean. In one thousand nine hundred ninety five the income generated in this way was $Two billion. The regulations also led to an increase in the use of live call-back services paid by credit cards, which did not fall under the regulator’s jurisdiction because they did not use premium-rate numbers. [9] By two thousand nine the proportion of the UK population that had used phone hook-up lines was 45%, according to a survey by Durex. By two thousand thirteen there were over Two,000 phone hook-up companies in the UK. Most phone hook-up workers are recruited through word of mouth or the internet as the companies are widely barred from advertising in mass media. The number of female university students working for phone lovemaking lines in the UK doubled inbetween two thousand eleven and 2013, according to a BBC-commissioned investigation. [Ten] The industry’s regulatory assets PhonepayPlus (formerly ICSTIC) monitors and enforces specific community standards in terms of content and price for premium rate numbers.

Legality Edit

Sable Communications of California filed suit against the FCC in federal court to overturn the Telephone Decency Act. On July Nineteen, 1988, U.S. District Judge A. Wallace Tashima ruled that "the prohibition against ‘indecent speech’ on 900-number recordings was unconstitutional, however its ban on ‘obscene speech’ could stand." [Three]

On June 23, 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that obscene speech, even in commercial telephone calls, was not protected, however indecent speech was. Justice Byron White wrote for the high court’s majority

There is no constitutional barrier under Miller to prohibiting communications that are obscene in some communities under local standards even tho’ they are not obscene in others." "Sable, which has the cargo of obeying with the prohibition, is free to tailor its messages, on a selective basis, to the communities it chooses to serve. [Three]

Workers Edit

A phone hookup worker is a type of lovemaking worker and pornographic actor, sometimes referred to as a "phone hookup operator," "fantasy artist," "adult phone entertainer," "audio erotic performer," or any one of other monikers. The most valued attributes of a phone hookup professional are his or her voice, acting and sexual roleplay abilities, along with the experienced capability to discern and react appropriately to a broad spectrum of customer requests. [11] [12]

Online companies Edit

Several online companies provide Internet-based phone hook-up lines. These services enable callers to post profiles of themselves and then engage in VOIP-based and other types of online hook-up.

Phone lovemaking

Phone hook-up is a conversation inbetween two or more people on the phone where one or more of the individuals is describing the act of hookup.

Phone hook-up takes imagination on both parties’ part; virtual lovemaking is difficult if the operator does not put the pictures in the head of the caller and the caller must be open to the pleasure as well. The sexually explicit conversation takes place inbetween two or more persons via telephone, especially when at least one of the participants masturbates or engages in sexual fantasy.

Phone lovemaking conversation may take many forms, including: guided fantasy, sexual sounds, narrated and enacted suggestions; sexual anecdotes and confessions; candid expression of sexual fantasies, feelings, or love, and/or discussion of very individual and sensitive sexual topics.

Once means of transmitting payment were developed, phone lovemaking turned into primarily a commercial activity, with customers (overwhelmingly masculine) and sellers (overwhelmingly female).

Phone hook-up does not involve physical contact inbetween those participating in it. Couples may choose to engage in phone lovemaking when the inconvenience of distance makes physical proximity inopportune. [1]

Due to the potential for emotional intimity inbetween those who have engaged in phone hook-up, it is a matter of some debate whether phone hookup is to be considered infidelity when involving a person outside of a committed individual relationship. Nevertheless, phone lovemaking should not be confused with prostitution wherein money is exchanged for real life sexual services or physical interaction.

Origin Edit

The editor of High Society magazine, Gloria Leonard, is credited with being one of the very first people to use "976 numbers", then "900 numbers" for promotional purposes and soon as a revenue stream in the adult industry. [Two] [Three] Leonard recorded her own voice informing callers of the contents of the next issue of High Society magazine before its publication. Later she recorded others such as Annie Sprinkle "talking sexy". Leonard persuaded magazine holder Carl Ruderman to purchase more of these numbers and the business began to be successful using the magazine to promote the service. [Three] Leonard herself was astonished at the success of these numbers.

Operation Edit

Originally phone lovemaking services consisted of a managed network of dispatchers (live or automated) and erotic performers. Performers would come to a studio where they received a cubicle, coaching, and cash incentives to keep callers on the line longer. This is the world portrayed in Spike Lee’s movie about phone hookup, Damsel 6. At that time independent phone hook-up was more dangerous, as Lee’s movie portrays.

With the progress of technology it became more practical, convenient, and economical for providers to work out of their homes. Human dispatchers — female, except for gay masculine phone lovemaking — answered the advertised phone numbers, processed payment via credit card, chose who of the available performers in the dispatcher’s judgment best matched the clients’ fantasy (grandma, black lady, college female, etc.), and connected the client with the provider. The caller could not see the performer’s number. Either could string up up, tho’ some services put economic pressure on providers not to do so.

Originally, per-minute billing was provided by phone companies (in the U.S., using 976, then nine hundred numbers). There was, from some services, an attempt to keep the caller sexually aroused but brief of orgasm, so he would spend more money. (This attitude still survives among some providers.) When public (mostly female) pressure coerced the phone companies to stop providing this service to hook-up workers, a transition was made to a manual method: pre-paid blocks of time, Ten, 30, sixty minutes, whatever the customer would pay for. The incentives for providers were then reversed; rather than earning money from keeping the customer on the line (orgasm delayed), they earned more from bringing the caller to orgasm quickly, so as to stir on rapidly to another call. Unused minutes were infrequently usable on a 2nd call. The provider provided (say) ten minutes of service, but got to keep all of the money (say twenty minutes).

When the Internet got relatively mature, sale of any sexual service not involving a minor could be made to anyone not a minor. Software platforms were custom-built written to treat money collection and transfer, connecting caller and lovemaking worker however neither could see anything but the platform’s phone number, and metering the connection. Details vary significantly from one platform to another, but the provider may be given a individual page on the platform to use however she (sometimes he) wishes. All have some way for a provider to post a picture and some text. Big platforms as of two thousand sixteen are Niteflirt, TalktoMe, and My Phone Site; [ citation needed ] the latter also includes provision by which a manager, with the consent of the providers, could have a virtual shop with many providers under them. Foreign (non-US) customers were courted. Customers had a multiplicity of payment options, and pages of providers to choose from, sometimes with voice samples available. In concept they have a lot in common with platforms such as Ebay: the seller provides the picture(s), description, and sets the price, a percentage of which is kept by the platform. In the lovemaking industry, similar platforms emerged facilitating the selling of used undies and other odoriferous garments, and for "cam" movie sessions, in which the customer, for a fee, can direct the woman on the movie screen, and for a higher fee, have a private connection (no one can see caller or provider except each other). [Four]

United States Edit

In two thousand two profits from phone hook-up were estimated at one billion dollars a year. [6] In two thousand seven the group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington estimated that phone lovemaking earned U.S. telephone companies close to $500 million per year. [7]

The vast majority of modern services in the United States use toll-free numbers whereby clients can dial up to request a call with a particular performer using credit cards, Automated Clearing House systems, and a multitude of other billing methods. There are still some services that rely upon premium-rate telephone numbers (e.g., nine hundred seventy six and nine hundred numbers) for billing purposes, albeit this practice has been largely abandoned due to the high rate of fraud associated with these lines and the inability to dial nine hundred and nine hundred seventy six lines from cellular phones. As a direct result, most telephone companies permit their customers to block outgoing calls to premium-rate telephone numbers. In 1996, the FCC switched regulations on nine hundred numbers to address manhandle of these services by minors and fraud concerns.

Independent phone hook-up operators engage in self-promotion. This self-promotion can involve a personalized website where the phone lovemaking performer lists their specialties and services, engaging prospects in social media, various methods of advertising (via the traditional methods listed below, or on organized third-party network sites that provide a basic level of privacy for performer and client alike) and/or surfing of sexually themed talk rooms for interested clients.

Phone lovemaking service providers typically advertise their services in dudes’s magazines, in pornographic magazines and movies, on late-night cable television, and online. Some phone hook-up services use state-of-the-art customer acquisition mechanisms such as active database marketing to reach potential clients. These advertising methods almost invariably target studs, the primary consumers of phone hookup services.

The major phone hook-up and adult talk lines spend millions of dollars in advertising every month. Thanks to technology, their marketing departments can track the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns by assigning unique phone numbers to each advertising campaign, regardless if it includes TV, print, online or a combination of all these. Unique numbers might either be toll-free 1-800 numbers or local access numbers in order to accommodate callers who have been targeted in a local advertising campaign. Phone hook-up services will usually list all the local numbers on their websites. Assigning unique phone numbers to each advertising channel permits phone talk companies to measure not only the number of calls that each channel generates but also the price per call, conversion rate, and comeback on investment. This information can be further analyzed to determine key insights such as the most and least profitable caller’s demographics, best and worst times to advertise and ultimately which advertising channels to invest more in and which ones to cut.

United Kingdom Edit

Phone hook-up lines appeared in the UK in the 1980s using premium-rate telephone numbers for adult services with sexual content, with many of the lines playing gauze recordings. The phone hook-up market in the UK is closely linked to the pornographic magazine market, and advertising for such services often provides a vital element of a magazine’s revenue. Up to a quarter of the page length of some magazines may be loyal to such advertisements. [8] Advertising in newspapers, which had been common in the 1980s, was ended as a result of regulatory switches in one thousand nine hundred ninety four which restricted advertisements to top-shelf adult magazines. At the same time rules were introduced requiring the user to pro-actively opt-in by requesting a pin number. This dramatically diminished the number of calls, and the proportion of the income generated by premium-rate telephone numbers which was associated with adult services fell from 18% in one thousand nine hundred ninety two to 1% in 1996. During the 1990s many companies began to re-route their traffic abroad in an attempt to circumvent the regulations. The industry took to operating from forty countries worldwide, commonly Guyana and the Caribbean. In one thousand nine hundred ninety five the income generated in this way was $Two billion. The regulations also led to an increase in the use of live call-back services paid by credit cards, which did not fall under the regulator’s jurisdiction because they did not use premium-rate numbers. [9] By two thousand nine the proportion of the UK population that had used phone lovemaking lines was 45%, according to a survey by Durex. By two thousand thirteen there were over Two,000 phone lovemaking companies in the UK. Most phone hookup workers are recruited through word of mouth or the internet as the companies are widely prohibited from advertising in mass media. The number of female university students working for phone hook-up lines in the UK doubled inbetween two thousand eleven and 2013, according to a BBC-commissioned investigation. [Ten] The industry’s regulatory figure PhonepayPlus (formerly ICSTIC) monitors and enforces specific community standards in terms of content and price for premium rate numbers.

Legality Edit

The legality of phone lovemaking businesses was challenged by the U.S. Federal government in July one thousand nine hundred eighty eight with the passage of the Telephone Decency Act, which made it a crime to use a "telephone . directly or by recording device" to make "any obscene or indecent communication for commercial purposes to any person," punishable by a $50,000 fine or six months in prison." At the time the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was responsible for policing nine hundred numbers for obscenity and indecency. [Trio]

There is no constitutional barrier under Miller to prohibiting communications that are obscene in some communities under local standards even however they are not obscene in others." "Sable, which has the cargo of conforming with the prohibition, is free to tailor its messages, on a selective basis, to the communities it chooses to serve. [Trio]

Workers Edit

A phone lovemaking worker is a type of hookup worker and pornographic actor, sometimes referred to as a "phone hookup operator," "fantasy artist," "adult phone entertainer," "audio erotic performer," or any one of other monikers. The most valued attributes of a phone lovemaking professional are his or her voice, acting and sexual roleplay abilities, along with the experienced capability to discern and react appropriately to a broad spectrum of customer requests. [11] [12]

Online companies Edit

Several online companies provide Internet-based phone hook-up lines. These services enable callers to post profiles of themselves and then engage in VOIP-based and other types of online lovemaking.

Phone hookup

Phone hook-up

Phone lovemaking is a conversation inbetween two or more people on the phone where one or more of the individuals is describing the act of hookup.

Phone hookup takes imagination on both parties’ part; virtual hook-up is difficult if the operator does not put the photos in the head of the caller and the caller must be open to the pleasure as well. The sexually explicit conversation takes place inbetween two or more persons via telephone, especially when at least one of the participants masturbates or engages in sexual fantasy.

Once means of transmitting payment were developed, phone hook-up turned into primarily a commercial activity, with customers (overwhelmingly masculine) and sellers (overwhelmingly female).

Phone lovemaking does not involve physical contact inbetween those participating in it. Couples may choose to engage in phone lovemaking when the inconvenience of distance makes physical closeness inopportune. [1]

Due to the potential for emotional closeness inbetween those who have engaged in phone lovemaking, it is a matter of some debate whether phone hook-up is to be considered infidelity when involving a person outside of a committed individual relationship. Nevertheless, phone hookup should not be confused with prostitution wherein money is exchanged for real life sexual services or physical interaction.

Origin Edit

The editor of High Society magazine, Gloria Leonard, is credited with being one of the very first people to use "976 numbers", then "900 numbers" for promotional purposes and soon as a revenue stream in the adult industry. [Two] [Trio] Leonard recorded her own voice informing callers of the contents of the next issue of High Society magazine before its publication. Later she recorded others such as Annie Sprinkle "talking sexy". Leonard persuaded magazine proprietor Carl Ruderman to purchase more of these numbers and the business began to be successful using the magazine to promote the service. [Trio] Leonard herself was astonished at the success of these numbers.

Operation Edit

Originally phone hookup services consisted of a managed network of dispatchers (live or automated) and erotic performers. Performers would come to a studio where they received a cubicle, coaching, and cash incentives to keep callers on the line longer. This is the world portrayed in Spike Lee’s movie about phone lovemaking, Doll 6. At that time independent phone lovemaking was more dangerous, as Lee’s movie portrays.

With the progress of technology it became more practical, convenient, and economical for providers to work out of their homes. Human dispatchers — female, except for gay masculine phone hookup — answered the advertised phone numbers, processed payment via credit card, chose who of the available performers in the dispatcher’s judgment best matched the clients’ fantasy (grandma, black chick, college doll, etc.), and connected the client with the provider. The caller could not see the performer’s number. Either could drape up, however some services put economic pressure on providers not to do so.

Originally, per-minute billing was provided by phone companies (in the U.S., using 976, then nine hundred numbers). There was, from some services, an attempt to keep the caller excited but brief of orgasm, so he would spend more money. (This attitude still survives among some providers.) When public (mostly female) pressure coerced the phone companies to stop providing this service to hookup workers, a transition was made to a manual method: pre-paid blocks of time, Ten, 30, sixty minutes, whatever the customer would pay for. The incentives for providers were then reversed; rather than earning money from keeping the customer on the line (orgasm delayed), they earned more from bringing the caller to orgasm quickly, so as to stir on rapidly to another call. Unused minutes were uncommonly usable on a 2nd call. The provider provided (say) ten minutes of service, but got to keep all of the money (say twenty minutes).

When the Internet got relatively mature, sale of any sexual service not involving a minor could be made to anyone not a minor. Software platforms were custom-built written to treat money collection and transfer, connecting caller and hook-up worker tho’ neither could see anything but the platform’s phone number, and metering the connection. Details vary significantly from one platform to another, but the provider may be given a private page on the platform to use however she (sometimes he) wishes. All have some way for a provider to post a picture and some text. Big platforms as of two thousand sixteen are Niteflirt, TalktoMe, and My Phone Site; [ citation needed ] the latter also includes provision by which a manager, with the consent of the providers, could have a virtual shop with many providers under them. Foreign (non-US) customers were courted. Customers had a multitude of payment options, and pages of providers to choose from, sometimes with voice samples available. In concept they have a lot in common with platforms such as Ebay: the seller provides the picture(s), description, and sets the price, a percentage of which is kept by the platform. In the hookup industry, similar platforms emerged facilitating the selling of used undies and other odoriferous garments, and for "cam" movie sessions, in which the customer, for a fee, can direct the woman on the movie screen, and for a higher fee, have a private connection (no one can see caller or provider except each other). [Four]

United States Edit

In two thousand two profits from phone hook-up were estimated at one billion dollars a year. [6] In two thousand seven the group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington estimated that phone hookup earned U.S. telephone companies close to $500 million per year. [7]

Phone hook-up service providers typically advertise their services in boys’s magazines, in pornographic magazines and movies, on late-night cable television, and online. Some phone hook-up services use state-of-the-art customer acquisition technologies such as active database marketing to reach potential clients. These advertising methods almost invariably target boys, the primary consumers of phone hookup services.

The major phone hookup and adult talk lines spend millions of dollars in advertising every month. Thanks to technology, their marketing departments can track the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns by assigning unique phone numbers to each advertising campaign, regardless if it includes TV, print, online or a combination of all these. Unique numbers might either be toll-free 1-800 numbers or local access numbers in order to accommodate callers who have been targeted in a local advertising campaign. Phone hookup services will usually list all the local numbers on their websites. Assigning unique phone numbers to each advertising channel permits phone talk companies to measure not only the number of calls that each channel generates but also the price per call, conversion rate, and come back on investment. This information can be further analyzed to determine key insights such as the most and least profitable caller’s demographics, best and worst times to advertise and ultimately which advertising channels to invest more in and which ones to cut.

United Kingdom Edit

Phone hook-up lines appeared in the UK in the 1980s using premium-rate telephone numbers for adult services with sexual content, with many of the lines playing gauze recordings. The phone hook-up market in the UK is closely linked to the pornographic magazine market, and advertising for such services often provides a vital element of a magazine’s revenue. Up to a quarter of the page length of some magazines may be dedicated to such advertisements. [8] Advertising in newspapers, which had been common in the 1980s, was ended as a result of regulatory switches in one thousand nine hundred ninety four which restricted advertisements to top-shelf adult magazines. At the same time rules were introduced requiring the user to pro-actively opt-in by requesting a pin number. This dramatically diminished the number of calls, and the proportion of the income generated by premium-rate telephone numbers which was associated with adult services fell from 18% in one thousand nine hundred ninety two to 1% in 1996. During the 1990s many companies began to re-route their traffic abroad in an attempt to circumvent the regulations. The industry took to operating from forty countries worldwide, commonly Guyana and the Caribbean. In one thousand nine hundred ninety five the income generated in this way was $Two billion. The regulations also led to an increase in the use of live call-back services paid by credit cards, which did not fall under the regulator’s jurisdiction because they did not use premium-rate numbers. [9] By two thousand nine the proportion of the UK population that had used phone lovemaking lines was 45%, according to a survey by Durex. By two thousand thirteen there were over Two,000 phone lovemaking companies in the UK. Most phone hook-up workers are recruited through word of mouth or the internet as the companies are widely prohibited from advertising in mass media. The number of female university students working for phone lovemaking lines in the UK doubled inbetween two thousand eleven and 2013, according to a BBC-commissioned investigation. [Ten] The industry’s regulatory assets PhonepayPlus (formerly ICSTIC) monitors and enforces specific community standards in terms of content and price for premium rate numbers.

Legality Edit

The legality of phone hookup businesses was challenged by the U.S. Federal government in July one thousand nine hundred eighty eight with the passage of the Telephone Decency Act, which made it a crime to use a "telephone . directly or by recording device" to make "any obscene or indecent communication for commercial purposes to any person," punishable by a $50,000 fine or six months in prison." At the time the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was responsible for policing nine hundred numbers for obscenity and indecency. [Three]

There is no constitutional barrier under Miller to prohibiting communications that are obscene in some communities under local standards even however they are not obscene in others." "Sable, which has the cargo of serving with the prohibition, is free to tailor its messages, on a selective basis, to the communities it chooses to serve. [Trio]

Workers Edit

A phone lovemaking worker is a type of hook-up worker and pornographic actor, sometimes referred to as a "phone hookup operator," "fantasy artist," "adult phone entertainer," "audio erotic performer," or any one of other monikers. The most valued attributes of a phone hook-up professional are his or her voice, acting and sexual roleplay abilities, along with the experienced capability to discern and react appropriately to a broad spectrum of customer requests. [11] [12]

Online companies Edit

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Phone lovemaking

Phone hookup is a conversation inbetween two or more people on the phone where one or more of the individuals is describing the act of hook-up.

Phone hook-up takes imagination on both parties’ part; virtual hook-up is difficult if the operator does not put the pics in the head of the caller and the caller must be open to the pleasure as well. The sexually explicit conversation takes place inbetween two or more persons via telephone, especially when at least one of the participants masturbates or engages in sexual fantasy.

Phone hookup conversation may take many forms, including: guided fantasy, sexual sounds, narrated and enacted suggestions; sexual anecdotes and confessions; candid expression of sexual fantasies, feelings, or love, and/or discussion of very private and sensitive sexual topics.

Once means of transmitting payment were developed, phone hook-up turned into primarily a commercial activity, with customers (overwhelmingly masculine) and sellers (overwhelmingly female).

Due to the potential for emotional intimity inbetween those who have engaged in phone lovemaking, it is a matter of some debate whether phone hook-up is to be considered infidelity when involving a person outside of a committed individual relationship. Nevertheless, phone hook-up should not be confused with prostitution wherein money is exchanged for real life sexual services or physical interaction.

Origin Edit

The editor of High Society magazine, Gloria Leonard, is credited with being one of the very first people to use "976 numbers", then "900 numbers" for promotional purposes and soon as a revenue stream in the adult industry. [Two] [Three] Leonard recorded her own voice informing callers of the contents of the next issue of High Society magazine before its publication. Later she recorded others such as Annie Sprinkle "talking sexy". Leonard wooed magazine proprietor Carl Ruderman to purchase more of these numbers and the business began to be successful using the magazine to promote the service. [Trio] Leonard herself was astonished at the success of these numbers.

Operation Edit

Originally phone lovemaking services consisted of a managed network of dispatchers (live or automated) and erotic performers. Performers would come to a studio where they received a cubicle, coaching, and cash incentives to keep callers on the line longer. This is the world portrayed in Spike Lee’s movie about phone lovemaking, Dame 6. At that time independent phone lovemaking was more dangerous, as Lee’s movie portrays.

With the progress of technology it became more practical, convenient, and economical for providers to work out of their homes. Human dispatchers — female, except for gay masculine phone lovemaking — answered the advertised phone numbers, processed payment via credit card, chose who of the available performers in the dispatcher’s judgment best matched the clients’ fantasy (grandma, black doll, college doll, etc.), and connected the client with the provider. The caller could not see the performer’s number. Either could drape up, tho’ some services put economic pressure on providers not to do so.

Originally, per-minute billing was provided by phone companies (in the U.S., using 976, then nine hundred numbers). There was, from some services, an attempt to keep the caller excited but brief of orgasm, so he would spend more money. (This attitude still survives among some providers.) When public (mostly female) pressure compelled the phone companies to stop providing this service to hook-up workers, a transition was made to a manual method: pre-paid blocks of time, Ten, 30, sixty minutes, whatever the customer would pay for. The incentives for providers were then reversed; rather than earning money from keeping the customer on the line (orgasm delayed), they earned more from bringing the caller to orgasm quickly, so as to stir on rapidly to another call. Unused minutes were infrequently usable on a 2nd call. The provider provided (say) ten minutes of service, but got to keep all of the money (say twenty minutes).

When the Internet got relatively mature, sale of any sexual service not involving a minor could be made to anyone not a minor. Software platforms were custom-built written to treat money collection and transfer, connecting caller and hookup worker tho’ neither could see anything but the platform’s phone number, and metering the connection. Details vary significantly from one platform to another, but the provider may be given a individual page on the platform to use however she (sometimes he) wishes. All have some way for a provider to post a picture and some text. Big platforms as of two thousand sixteen are Niteflirt, TalktoMe, and My Phone Site; [ citation needed ] the latter also includes provision by which a manager, with the consent of the providers, could have a virtual shop with many providers under them. Foreign (non-US) customers were courted. Customers had a multitude of payment options, and pages of providers to choose from, sometimes with voice samples available. In concept they have a lot in common with platforms such as Ebay: the seller provides the picture(s), description, and sets the price, a percentage of which is kept by the platform. In the lovemaking industry, similar platforms emerged facilitating the selling of used undies and other odoriferous garments, and for "cam" movie sessions, in which the customer, for a fee, can direct the woman on the movie screen, and for a higher fee, have a private connection (no one can see caller or provider except each other). [Four]

United States Edit

In two thousand two profits from phone hook-up were estimated at one billion dollars a year. [6] In two thousand seven the group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington estimated that phone lovemaking earned U.S. telephone companies close to $500 million per year. [7]

The vast majority of modern services in the United States use toll-free numbers whereby clients can dial up to request a call with a particular performer using credit cards, Automated Clearing House systems, and a multiplicity of other billing methods. There are still some services that rely upon premium-rate telephone numbers (e.g., nine hundred seventy six and nine hundred numbers) for billing purposes, albeit this practice has been largely abandoned due to the high rate of fraud associated with these lines and the inability to dial nine hundred and nine hundred seventy six lines from cellular phones. As a direct result, most telephone companies permit their customers to block outgoing calls to premium-rate telephone numbers. In 1996, the FCC switched regulations on nine hundred numbers to address manhandle of these services by minors and fraud concerns.

Phone hook-up service providers typically advertise their services in studs’s magazines, in pornographic magazines and movies, on late-night cable television, and online. Some phone hookup services use state-of-the-art customer acquisition technics such as active database marketing to reach potential clients. These advertising methods almost invariably target dudes, the primary consumers of phone hook-up services.

The major phone hookup and adult talk lines spend millions of dollars in advertising every month. Thanks to technology, their marketing departments can track the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns by assigning unique phone numbers to each advertising campaign, regardless if it includes TV, print, online or a combination of all these. Unique numbers might either be toll-free 1-800 numbers or local access numbers in order to accommodate callers who have been targeted in a local advertising campaign. Phone hookup services will usually list all the local numbers on their websites. Assigning unique phone numbers to each advertising channel permits phone talk companies to measure not only the number of calls that each channel generates but also the price per call, conversion rate, and comeback on investment. This information can be further analyzed to determine key insights such as the most and least profitable caller’s demographics, best and worst times to advertise and ultimately which advertising channels to invest more in and which ones to cut.

United Kingdom Edit

Phone lovemaking lines appeared in the UK in the 1980s using premium-rate telephone numbers for adult services with sexual content, with many of the lines playing gauze recordings. The phone hookup market in the UK is closely linked to the pornographic magazine market, and advertising for such services often provides a vital element of a magazine’s revenue. Up to a quarter of the page length of some magazines may be faithful to such advertisements. [8] Advertising in newspapers, which had been common in the 1980s, was ended as a result of regulatory switches in one thousand nine hundred ninety four which restricted advertisements to top-shelf adult magazines. At the same time rules were introduced requiring the user to pro-actively opt-in by requesting a pin number. This dramatically diminished the number of calls, and the proportion of the income generated by premium-rate telephone numbers which was associated with adult services fell from 18% in one thousand nine hundred ninety two to 1% in 1996. During the 1990s many companies began to re-route their traffic abroad in an attempt to circumvent the regulations. The industry took to operating from forty countries worldwide, commonly Guyana and the Caribbean. In one thousand nine hundred ninety five the income generated in this way was $Two billion. The regulations also led to an increase in the use of live call-back services paid by credit cards, which did not fall under the regulator’s jurisdiction because they did not use premium-rate numbers. [9] By two thousand nine the proportion of the UK population that had used phone lovemaking lines was 45%, according to a survey by Durex. By two thousand thirteen there were over Two,000 phone hookup companies in the UK. Most phone hookup workers are recruited through word of mouth or the internet as the companies are widely barred from advertising in mass media. The number of female university students working for phone lovemaking lines in the UK doubled inbetween two thousand eleven and 2013, according to a BBC-commissioned investigation. [Ten] The industry’s regulatory assets PhonepayPlus (formerly ICSTIC) monitors and enforces specific community standards in terms of content and price for premium rate numbers.

Legality Edit

Sable Communications of California filed suit against the FCC in federal court to overturn the Telephone Decency Act. On July Nineteen, 1988, U.S. District Judge A. Wallace Tashima ruled that "the prohibition against ‘indecent speech’ on 900-number recordings was unconstitutional, however its ban on ‘obscene speech’ could stand." [Three]

Workers Edit

A phone hook-up worker is a type of hookup worker and pornographic actor, sometimes referred to as a "phone lovemaking operator," "fantasy artist," "adult phone entertainer," "audio erotic performer," or any one of other monikers. The most valued attributes of a phone lovemaking professional are his or her voice, acting and sexual roleplay abilities, along with the experienced capability to discern and react appropriately to a broad spectrum of customer requests. [11] [12]

Online companies Edit

Several online companies provide Internet-based phone hook-up lines. These services enable callers to post profiles of themselves and then engage in VOIP-based and other types of online lovemaking.

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