Conference turris::womannotes-v3

    
    
    I have called.
    
    
    -anon
    

    Maybe there aren't many women who would be interested in calling up
    strange men on the phone and chatting about - what? - sex? - for 5 or
    10 minutes.  I think/hope most women want a little more out of life
    than that.
    
    (When you're talking to a stranger on the phone you have no idea what
    they look like.  Somebody could be as ugly as hell and have a nice
    speaking voice.)
    
    Lorna
    

    Yeah, rmember the "old days" when you talked to real live operators?
    
    Some of them had really nice voices.
    
    ed

    
    
    RE:  .2   
    
    It has nothing to do with being desperate, I can tell you that with
    impeccable confidence.  It is exciting, unless you don't want that out
    of life.
    
    -anon
    

I can talk to myself for free!

john

    re .4, perhaps we have different ideas of excitement.  
    
    (Masturbating while talking to a strange man on the phone isn't one of
    mine.)  Oops, can I say that in a notesfile?  :-)   (Well, that *is*
    what guys do when they call these phone numbers isn't it?)
    
    Lorna
    

    
    
    RE:  .5 john
    
    I can just picture that!
    
    
    Ooooooh John, talk to me.  I want to know what your thinking!
    
    -anon
    

    
    
    RE:  .6
    
    No, not this guy.
    
    -anon
    

    I've seen ads for both "talk to hot women" and "talk to hot men" in
    Worcester Magazine - probably would also find 'em in the Boston Phoenix
    too....ain't never availed myself of their services, tho....
    
    -Jody

    RE .0 How do you _know_ they're beautiful ? Think about it. 
    If I could work over the phone I wouldn't shave for days at 
    a time, probably dress in my grungy sweats, lounge around 
    with a plate of nachos, crumbs all over, just waiting for the 
    phone to ring. Why comb my hair ? 

    Re:11, I was talking about the ads that the show on TV, the women that
    are the ones dthat tell you to call them....
    
    REK
    
    Isn't "phone-sex" illegal in some states?

    Hey, what does it matter if the owners of the 1-900-voices are
    physically attractive or not? They're selling fantasies, after all.
    
    I'll admit to some curiosity as to the content of those chat-lines,
    though not enough to justify my calling any of 'em up myself. As I
    recall, the famous Jose Canseco 1-900 line was reported to feature
    Jose's recorded voice recounting things like his current batting
    average and why he got caught speeding (again); how many of the
    sultry-siren phonelines are hear-only vs. live? Do they have ground
    rules for what you can and can't say, a la the "obscenity over the
    phone" rules? And how much of that first-minute-for-$25 is taken up
    with informational messages?
    
    I'm phone-ophobic myself, so I have a hard time finding *anything*
    attractive or intriguing about phonecalls, but for people who enjoy
    them I suppose 900-lines could be fun. And they certainly do appear to
    be profitable, judging by the number of new ones I see advertised. Hey,
    maybe the state ought to sponsor one, to supplement state income as
    with a lottery! I can see it now: 1-900-PHONE-NH, where sexy voices
    will tell you how much the tolls are these days, and how the skiing is,
    and the current status of the wetlands ordinance...
    
    -b

    
    .6
    
    I think you have to say masteriskbating.
    

Most of the 900 sex lines cater to men - whether it is a man or a woman on
the other end of the line.  I have seen a few ads (in some, shall we say,
"special interest" publications) for female to female 900 lines.  I have
yet to see an ad for a 900 line featuring men and catering to women.

Frankly, I can't see the appeal, but whatever floats yer boat.   The sound of 
a sulty voice of a MOTAS is not enough to "do me".  I've had
fun-on-the-phone before, but only with a known lover from whom I was
temporarily seperated.

D!

    I agree, D!, strangers, particularly faceless strangers, just don't do
    it for me, either.  The women on the tv ads are paid models.  I doubt
    very much these companies pay their phone staff such hourly rates which
    means I doubt very much they look for someone who looks great to staff
    a phone line.  Get real.  Too bad no one's mentioned the talk show,
    (Phil? Oprah? Sally J-R?) which featured these "models".  They are like
    radio DJs.   I'll never forget my junior high fascination with "Bobby
    Dark", hot DJ in the 60s from WORC in Worcester.  I managed to meet him
    during his show through a mutual friend.  We went to the radio station
    and my adolescent little heart was pounding.  And there, in the sound
    booth, was 300 pound, greasy-haired, bespectacled Allen Bookmiller, 
    oozing his sexy voice into the microphone as "Bobby Dark".  These phone 
    line women don't seem to be much different.  People who call these
    lines are paying for an aural fantasy trigger, no more, no less.  To me
    it would be like buying a picture of money to fantasize myself being
    rich, or a picture of food to fantasize that I'm sitting down to it. 
    It seems rather silly and empty to me.  I'd rather have a real dish of 
    simple pasta than a huge, 4 color picture of a chateubriand jardiniere 
    aux champignons or a sexy voice describing the preparation of it.  Men 
    as a group, may be different, however.  Dreaming of that chateubriand 
    seems to have some merit as the proliferation of these things proves.  
    I'll take the real world, thanx.  Then again, maybe I'll open up a
    phone line!  It'll sure save on the work wardrobe!  ;-)

    
    I've never called a 900 line and if I was in the true confessions note
    I'd confess to calling various 550 numbers -- when I first discovered
    them on the back pages of the Phoenix -- to listen in (mostly the
    numbers for men to call and talk to men).  Callers to the man-to-man 
    numbers get right down to business pretty quickly with no pretense at 
    chatting, with physical descriptions, dimensions, likes/dislikes.
    Sometimes what they say isn't wholly understandable because they use a 
    jargon I'm not familiar with.  Most don't like to get graphic on the
    party line and when two guys think they'd like to go into more detail,
    they signal an operator to "go private".  The same people call, too.  
    And not many like to travel -- if you're calling from the north shore
    or "metro-west" forget it!  I never had the chutzpah to play along on 
    the hetero lines.  These get pretty dull because the callers try to chat 
    awhile first about mundane subjects.  (A lot of the time there's a guy 
    saying "Hullo?"  "Hullo?" over and over again.
    
    CQ

< RE .0 How do you _know_ they're beautiful ? Think about it. 
<    If I could work over the phone I wouldn't shave for days at 
<    a time, probably dress in my grungy sweats, lounge around 
<    with a plate of nachos, crumbs all over, just waiting for the 
<    phone to ring. Why comb my hair ? 

Why Dana, I never realised you'd worked with us here at the support center!!!
We used to call ourselves the "phone sluts" cause we weren't allowed to say
no to a customer. ;*) Of course, we're only an 800 number.

As to whether there are lines for women to call, who cares? I wouldn't care to
talk to someone I didn't know and have to pay for the privilege besides. It's
no different than paying for sex, most men are more than willing to engage in
sexually oriented conversations with a woman if she indicates interest. Women
don't have to pay. liesl

	
	Guess I misunderstood the whole concept.  I've seen these adds
	with sexy-looking woman saying things like, "...hear a woman's
	thoughts and feelings...."  And I formed a concept of what these
	woman were like and decided not to call.  I kind of assumed by 
	looking at them that their feelings and thoughts might be
	something like:

		"I think I just broke a nail.  I feel like I could die.
		 I'm going to scream!...."

	or perhaps:

		"I feel like going to the Mall.  Aren't Malls the 
		 BEST!  Do you like going to the Mall? [No pause for
		 my answer.] I wish I could spend the whole night
		 at the Mall........."

	or maybe:

		"I just love my hair.  Don't you just love my hair?
		 I've spent a fortune on it and ....."

	or:

		"Isn't Billy Idol the most!  Gee,  it's cold in here.
		 I wonder why it's so cold in here?  I had a grapefruit
		 for lunch.  Just a grapefruit!  I won't eat again 
		 until tonight.  I'll have a sundae then...."  [This is
		 when I try to change the subject to something more adult,
		 saying, "What do you think the Russians up to with this 
		 peace proposal of theirs?"]  "Gag me with a spoon.  I 
		 don't know!  My girlfriend actually got gagged with
		 a spoon.  And she almost died.  We had gone out to the 
		 Mall and we were gettin' some ice cream.  She started
		 laughin, just as she put the spoon in her mouth and
		 ..........."

	If I'm going to spend this much on a phone call,  I expect some
	answers to the big questions in life or at least a little help
	with my taxes.  Maybe I'll just wait for someone to come up with
	an Emily Dickinson phone number where you can hear recorded
	poetry or something.  [ I suppose the tv people would ruin that
	too.  They'd probably have the same models they use now, saying,
	"Hi.  I'm Emily.  Want to hear my thoughts and feelings?"  And,
	like a fool I'd call only to hear the poems being read in 
	Roseanne Barr's voice.]

    re.18 Where do I apply ?
    

    In answer to the original question, there are many, many, 1-900 numbers
    you can call to talk to men.  But, as alluded to earlier, they are
    generally listed in "special interest publications".
    
    Rachael

    I'd see these commercials constantly when I'd be taping shows on
    late-night, and there are several that made me feel like I wanted
    to wash up afterwards just from watching it.
    
    As Eric says, some seemed to oriented toward "chatting" -- though
    still showing sexy looking women. The worst ones are simply disgusting,
    looking like ads for a meat market. One's phone number had the
    mnemonic xxx-SINS (!), another had a woman suggesting that you listen
    to her "mind-blowing fantasies" -- I leave it as an exercise for the
    reader to guess which word gets emphasized (here's a hint: it's not
    "mind") -- while another shows a women sucking on a lollipop. To
    paraphrase Freud, sometimes a lollipop is just a lollipop, but I
    somehow don't think that's the case here.
    
    It's enough to make one want to upchuck.
    
    --- jerry

    Oh my word... EDP and I make a point to watch the same show.....
    
    Yes, I have seen these 1-900 change from just want to talk to you to
    let me tell you my most private thoughts to fantasies....
    
    REK
    
    PS Re: a couple back, my point was/is that there are no MALE tv ads
    for this kind of service. I know you can look at the Phoenix and
    see many of them.

    Heard on the radio this morning - an 11 year old girl was raped by a
    man she talked to on one of these lines - she had given him her
    address, when she called in.   
    
    Linda

I haven't heard about the rape, but I doubt it was from a 900 number fantasy
lines. The people talking on those lines are professionals, get paid for what 
they do, and are strictly forbidden from actually setting up dates with their
"clients"...besides, they talk to hundreds of people a day, I doubt they
would want to.

More likely, they were on one of "chat lines", where multiple people (8-10) 
can all talk at once.  Generally, they aren't paid and they may actually be
looking to meet real people.  I've called these lines before (in Boston, they
are relatively cheap) and been asked for my full name and number many times.
If you call these lines:  DO NOT GIVE OUT YOUR FULL NAME OR ADDRESS!!!!!!
For one thing, the peson you are giving it to may be anything from a creep to
a rapist - second of all, there are other people listening - many people get
on theline any never say anything, just listen.  Even if you are in "private"
mode, the moderator is listening.  If you set up a meeting with someone, be
sure to get hir phone number, make sure you talk to hir over a real private
phone conversation at least once, and meet in a safe, public place!!

Here's something interesting you may not know - some of the women on some of
the 550 lines are calling for free.  More men calls these things than women,
so they encourage women to call by letting them in free.  And sometimes, they
even *pay* women to act as conversation initiators on the 550 lines which 
are supposed to be just normal people talking with eachother - it attracts
business.

D!

Title:  "phone slut" wannabee
                                                                                                              2 lines  re.18 Where do I apply ?
     re.18 Where do I apply ?
   
Well Dana, as a matter of fact the center is solicting for phone sluts if they
have senior level technical knowledge of VMS, ULTRIX or various layered
products. We have OPEN reqs!! Trust me though, I did 3 years hard time on the
phones, it's not an easy job. Most customers are nice people but there are a
few that will curse at you and be very unpleasant. liesl

    RE .30 Liesl, ever pump gas ? "Two dollars regular, please, and 
    could you check the oil ? Oh, and could you get the windshield and 
    check the tires? Thanks. Oh, gee, the pump ran over, well sorry, I
    only have two dollars."
    
    Dana (who wishes he had 'senior level blahblahblah ;-) )
    

Sometimes you can meet nice guys, although I wouldn't
recommend it.

I called a 900 singles line once which had recorded messages
from women about their interests in the kind of relationship
they were looking for with men.  I listened to about four and
became intrigued by one voice.  I called Jennifer, and we
really hit it off over the phone.  After a few months of calling
each other she asked if she could come visit me.  I tried to talk
her out of it because I thought it was a risky thing to do.
(In general, I'm relatively safe. :-))

I flew her up to New Hampshire from New York City.  We had a
fun three days.  Hopefully I convinced her that this was not
a good thing to do, despite the safe adventure she had with me.

Re .0
>>  Now my point, why aren't there any 1-900 numbers you can call up and
>>  talk to men?
 
I saw an add once for "Men Who Love Large Women".

Rich...

    This is tangential to the topic and may be moved if our mods see it as
    necessary, but I met my (now ex)-wife over what might have been a
    precursor to one of these lines. Many moons ago, 1968, there was an AM
    radio station in NH. It's still there but has changed somewhat, AM not
    being what it once was. They had a request line at night. When to many
    people used the line, it overloaded the phone circuits and everyone
    could talk to everyone else over the busy signal. One would pick out a
    voice and try to connect with it, get the phone number and call that
    person at home. We called it the "Beep Line" and the station picked up
    on it and made a quiet little promotion out of it. The phone company
    developed better equipment and the "Beep Line" went away.
    
    I picked out an interesting voice, called her, made a date, fell in
    love, got married in 1973. Love died and we divorced in 1984, but the
    way we met was a bit unique. 
    
    Phil

    We had a "beep line" in my home town in Indiana.  It was popular among
    teenagers during the early 1970s.  It just so happened that, with the
    phone system there, just dialing your own number would produce a busy
    signal.  Participants would call out between the beeps sentences like
    "Are-there-any-girls-on-this-line?"  If someone responded, you would
    ask them for their number and give them a call.

    -- Mike

must have been a nation-wide phenom.  I remember this from my teen years, in
Springfield Mass, in the mid- to late 60s.

    ... I get this wonderful image of all the fertile young people in a
    given community transformed by some Bradburian thaumaturge into frogs
    in a fecund pond on a hot summer's night.  There is a rhythmic,
    communal chanting... 
    
    RIBBIT...  RIBBIT...  RIBBIT...  RIBBIT...
    
    that metamorphoses into 
    
    BEEP  ...  BEEP  ...  BEEP  ...  BEEP  ...
    
    as all the frogs turn out, on closer inspection, to be teenagers...  on
    the phone...
    
    and as the RIBBITs transmogrify into BEEPs, eligible mates swim
    towards, and find, one another...
    
    ... random bubblings ripple the pond ... the occasional fly is
    swatted...
    
    Aah, young love!!  I remember it well!!!  RIBBEEPIT!!!!!
    
    :-)

    1.  In a certain woman's magazine there are LOTS of 900 phone 
        numbers that cater to women.  Ads show a great looking man
        holding a phone.  Ad reads something like If you want to 
        talk with me, call ....
    
    2.  Last night I saw an awfully deceiving ad on a cable channel.
        It was to try a 900 number for FREE.  The phone number was
        900-XXX-FREE.  Good thing I'm in the habbit of reading the
        teeny, tiny print at the bottom of the screen.  ONLY THE
        FIRST MINUTE WAS FREE!!!  The rest of the call was $15.
        Now, honestly, how can you really see if you like something
        in 60 seconds?!?!?
    
    
    Linda