Ever want to be a phone sex operator?
Ever call one of those numbers that flash up on your screen while you’re watching late-night TV?
Perhaps you need to flip through Phillip Toledano’s book, PhoneSex.
In it, you’ll find portraits of various phone sex workers — many of whom are not exactly what you imagine they’d look like — voice work is, after all, all about theater of the mind).
There’s the story of the girl who does the job to raise her self-esteem, one who does the job because she has a nice voice, and then there’s the story of the phone sex worker who heard one of her clients commit suicide while on the phone with her. The sad part about the last one? She’s experienced listening to two other suicides.
Not exactly a stellar track record of success. Yet she continue doing her job.