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_Sapphire