Never mind the perverts and the lonely hearts who call those party lines and sleazy phone sex lines; at least for now.
Nine hundred numbers- They're made for exploitation, for many folks across the nation.
In the last decade or more, what started out as an underground industry has been made almost mainstream from many people's points of view.
During the nineteen eighties, underage kids routinely got through to the sleazy adult phone lines. In the last decade or so, 900 #s have proliferated like a virus. There are contest lines, astrological and psychic lines, confession lines, advice lines, and you name it, there is probably a 900 line for it. (to be cont'd)
[The original version of this essay first appeared in Eastern Connecticut State University's Campus Lantern student newspaper in August of 1992 and was later part of my unpublished manuscript "In Mediocrity We Trust... In Debt We Die" And Other Essays.]
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