Rural Red State Iowa is the Heartland of America's Phonesex Industry

[Ian David]

Sunday, May 6, 2007
Rural telephone lines a hotbed for steamy talk
Call blocking raises user issues



The Web site for Wayland, Iowa, boasts of "clean, well-kept homes," but the telephone lines running through town pulse with sultry talk on adult chat lines and a strange number of conference calls.

There's nothing particularly steamy or talkative about this city of fewer than 1,000 people, just a quirk in telecommunications law that gets certain large phone companies all hot and bothered - so much so they've warned of higher phone bills for everyone.

Wayland is one of at least 25 mostly Midwestern towns, about half of them in remote corners of Iowa, where the volume of incoming calls from other area codes has surged to a level that would be hard to explain even if every resident had taken to chatting long distance day and night.

Instead, the spike in long-distance calls can be traced to assorted dial-in services with local phone numbers, from providers of free conference calling to chat lines with names like "Alibi."

More:
http://poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070506/BUSINESS/705060353/1003/NEWS

[SpiralHawk]

1. How perfectly republicon

To stand in the public marketplace making a great show of your sanctimony, then to sneak home, make a skanky call to a sleazy SEX PHONE LINE, wank yourself, and then head back out to the public marketplace to condemn everyone else for not being as prissily sanctimonious as you are...

Oh yes, how perfectly republicon.

[phoreten]

2. Misleading headline...

The article is about rural phone rules established decades ago to encourage phone companies to link up rural areas that now end up permitting calls from all over the US to be routed through these small communities communications systems for $$$.

[Bitwit1234]

3. AND did you know Utah is the headquarters for porn movies

Yep ...Utah has the largest porn industry movie making in the country.