Phillip Toledano’s Phone Sex Operators

I alluded to Phillip Toledano’s Phone Sex Operators work last week, as he was showing it in Sante Fe, and Rob Haggart had written about the impending book, but I didn’t get a chance to read through the subject’s own quotes until yesterday. It furthers the “words and pictures” theme we have going. Here are a few of my favorites, check out Toledano’s site to see more.

“I’m 60 years old, have a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology from Columbia
University, and married for 25 years. I have a son in his last years of
college who lives at home. He’s a 4.0 with a double major in English
Literature and Religion. Men call me for an infinity of reasons. Of
course, they call to masturbate. I call it “Executive Stress Relief.”
It’s not sex; it’s a cocktail of testosterone, fueled by addiction to
pornography, loneliness, and the need to hear a woman’s voice. I make
twice the money I made in the corporate world. I work from home, the
money transfers into my bank account daily. I’m Scheherezade: If I
don’t tell stories that fascinate the Pasha, he will kill me in the
morning.”

“I am a straight male who speaks to women. They want me. They want me
to talk to them, and to take them to another world. I’m good at it. I’m
a pro. A ladies man. I speak to younger women. I speak to older women.
I speak both Spanish and English. I have been thrown offers left and
right. They want me to meet up and have my way with them, but I keep it
only to phone conversations.”