My Brief Career as a Phone-Sex Worker

By at 9:12 am Thursday, Apr 19

Jake says: "This is an article in the Hartford Advocate which describes the author (Jennifer Abel) taking a job as a phone-sex worker just to see what it's like. It's a fascinating article."
Two words for anyone who wants to get rich giving phone sex: don’t bother. In theory, you can make up to 40 cents a minute, but to get that you have to do at least 60 calls a week with an average call length of 10 minutes or more. If your calls average six minutes or less, you only make a nickel a minute and risk being fired. (And you’re only paid for when you actually talk, not the time spent waiting for the phone to ring.)

But the deck’s stacked so a high average is hard to get. For example, you have to hang up if you get a call from a minor, but that means a five-second call bringing down your average. There’s no appeals process to say, “Yes, that was a short call but it doesn’t count.”

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Mark Frauenfelder

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