Introducing: Operator

BEHIND THE VELVET ROPE

David Yontef

Society & Culture, News, Tv & Film, Entertainment News

4 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

During the 1-900 number craze of the Nineties, one company provided the vast majority of phone sex. American Telnet was an empire founded by the man who called himself “The Telephone Pimp.” He ran the company “like General Motors” and got filthy rich doing it. But for the (mostly) women who answered the calls and delivered fantasies 24-7, it was a different story. The powerful stigma against sex work was always lurking just beneath the surface, until it threatened to tear apart the whole company. Hosted by Tina Horn (Why Are People Into That?), OPERATOR is an eight-part series about big ambitions, Shakespearean-level corporate backstabbing, men and women at the cutting edge of a technological revolution...and on the front lines of a sexual one. Listen to Operator now! http://wondery.fm/OP_Behind_The_Velvet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:28.8	Season C.
1:29.8	Hey you guys.
1:30.6	I need to tell you about a new mini series which I just started from
1:33.5	Wundry and Topic Studios called Operator.
1:36.4	It's the untold true story of the phone sex line company that took over the world.
1:40.9	As some of you may remember in the 90s, ads for phone sex lines were everywhere.
1:45.4	They were flickering on late night cable channels and they were printed on the back of magazines.
1:49.7	While phone sex operators worked around the clock to fulfill fantasies.
1:54.6	It all started with an idea from Mike Parties.
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