‘Hey,” the skin-mag editor said, “you don’t think those phone-sex ads are placed from a pay booth on Carmine Street by some creep in a polyester raincoat. They’re placed by agencies. The credit-card phone-sex game is big business. Legit and lucrative and low-profile. They don’t like publicity. You’ll have trouble getting anyone to talk.”
Much trouble. But finally Rick, the maven of switchboard scuzz, gave me a cautious interview. Rick claims to have invented lust by extension cord around 1980. I wonder how he hit on that. “Mr. Watson, darling, come here. I really need you.”
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