MARIETTA, Ga. -- Like many little boys his age, 3-year-old Carter Vaughn of Marietta loves playing with his toy cars and trucks. But he won't be playing with one of his newer ones any more. "I called the number and I got a real shocker," said Jan Barnett. "It was a sex line," Carter's grandmother added. We called it, too, and sure enough, it is.
Is anyone really surprised by this? I've kinda just assumed that sex lines only stay in business because of curious kids, like there is no way adults actually call these things with the readily available resources of porn and hookers...you'd have to be an idiot to be charged a few bucks a minute to chat over the phone with some heffer from the midwest talking in throaty hushed tones...gotta be just as cheap to go pick-up a local whore for a quick throw, no? Growing up the coolest kid was always the one willing to dial up 1-800-HOT-SEXX, or whatever the number of the week was, and deal with the repercussions when his parents got the phone bill later. I'd wager on any given day 90% of all phone calls to sex lines are from kids under the age of 14...there's just no way adults are sitting around a speaker phone getting giggles listening to some phone operator talk dirty, no way.
