Great Photos Of People You’re Not Meant To See
“I never thought I would work in the phone sex industry. All those years doing customer service, my customers would comment on my sexy voice. I thought I was being professional, not sexy. This work is customer service. It’s just your customers leave with more than a smile.”
The allure of phone sex is rooted in the make believe world of fantasy. That perhaps one is actually talking to the woman in the ad or least one who looks as sexy as she sounds. But really, who are the women manning the phone lines? New York-based photographer Phillip Toledano lifts the veil on this in his book, PhoneSex. Indeed they aren’t the beauties callers expect but this is just testament to the power of (male) human imagination.
Images from the book and Interview with Toledano here.
5 Comments, Comment or Ping
anfield devotee
am sure plenty of guys find her sexy . . .
Jul 14th, 2008
Afif
So you like big-big girl eh dude? Owh bee-have!
Jul 14th, 2008
anfield devotee
Blogowner called me to ask me that as well. Afif, what me meant to say is that it is quite cruel to assume that people don’t find her attractive.
Besides, we should try our best to NOT conform to the usual standards of “textbook” beauty as dictated by the fashion industry . . .
So what of she’s big?
Jul 14th, 2008
Nick Mun
I didn’t call you for that reason but to clarify that it’s not meant as a put down of plus-sized women. The photos merely reveal that the women manning the lines aren’t quite what the callers imagine/fantasize them to be.
If you look at the other pictures, you would find that the photo I used is hardly representative of the women who work in this industry. Case in point is a 60-year old woman who’s married for 25 years and has a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology for Columbia University.
Jul 14th, 2008
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