a slow-witted colleague came to me with a request for help last week. He phoned a sex chat line "just to see what it was" and ended up with a big phone bill and an expensive subscription to lewd text messages, which have been difficult to find cancel .
I thought sexual overtaxed phone lines were dismissed by adult webcam services but not. It happens that phone sex is still big business in Indonesia, the operators benefit from anonymity, while entertainers front of webcams risk social stigma and being charged under the anti-pornography law.
tabloids Jakarta used to be full of advertisements for sex phone lines. Not anymore. the sleaziest tabloids, Lampu Merah , cleaned up his act in 2008, changing its name to Lampu Hijau and reducing the emphasis on coal and tickling. If the first page used to be a soft porn gallery, today's edition has a picture of a dead baby. The back page even has a "sex position for Husbands and Wives" daily (because only married people have sex in Indonesia) but obscene advertisements big-busted women, barely dressed disappeared. Instead, there are a few tame ads for 0809 premium rate numbers with "Chat" for a simple Rp.3,420 per minute.
The hottest ads now in Lampu Hijau and Pos Kota are those people posing in Islamic garb and offering treatments such as penis enlargement, the breast enlargement and vaginal tightening. There is also an increasing number of ads for inflatable dolls - which are described as "full body and beautiful" and Rp.850,000 costs, if you want to have sex with some plastic. Amid all this dirt are ads offering to cure hemorrhoids and hernias.
Phone sex ads are now mainly transmitted by SMS in Indonesia. Suppliers get lists of numbers for men, who get along the lines of texts. "Honey, I'm so lonely and need a man to caress me Kisses, please call me on 0809xxxxxxx. "anyone who calls this number will be charged at Rp.1,700 by 30 seconds for the phone sex fun. Good operators know how to proceed slowly, making a lot of conversation to keep a man on the line for 20 minutes before he gets what he called for. The best traders are good enough to get a man addicted, so it will keep remembering.
Some people claim telephone sex lines are a scam because the appellants for the first time may not be aware that their credit will be sucked dry. In addition, some call centers cite a rate Rp.400 per minute, but then pay more Rp.3,000 a minute. The spokesman of the Jakarta Police Senior Commissioner Rikwanto said phone sex is not a crime if it is just to talk, although police can investigate whether there are indications of a service is a front for prostitution or sex trafficking.
Generally, women are not independent operators. They are usually eight-hour shifts rows of cramped cabins for less Rp.1.5 million per month, although they may receive a bonus for each call lasting 20 minutes or more. Operators field about 20 to 30 calls a day. Some raise their poor pay by meeting the male caller then charging about Rp.500,000 for real sex in a hotel room.
Officials from the Ministry of Communication and Information earlier this year dismantled a phone sex company that worked on the eighth floor of an office building on Jalan Gatot Subroto. A local media report said that although "the operators had attractive voices, none of them had beautiful faces." The owner of the company was reported to be a stranger.
The risk of job receiving abusive calls from women who suspect their husbands are having an affair. Clever operators are protected from abuse and leaving an angry woman screaming continue as long as she likes, such as every 30 seconds means more money for the boss.
Some phone sex entrepreneurs have created pages for callers. Freelancers display their pictures and sexy phone number on social media sites to trap men, then give them sob stories about how they are orphans, desperate for money. the pathetic men delude thinking they have found true love and voluntarily transfer money. Some optimists guys post their mobile numbers online and urge women to call for phone sex, but they usually just get hit with spam.