My work as a phone sex operator has served as an observational study that informs my artwork through live performance and the writing and distribution of a closet drama. Phone sex is a telephone conversation between two anonymous people, a phone
sex operator and a paying client. This service is considered virtual sex, since there is no contact between the participants, other than the voice, used to create an intimate experience. My phone sex persona, HipsterArtGirl, is open to all conversations, attempting to create an environment where callers feel comfortable sharing their stories.
Phone sex is portrayed as a service for entertainment and sex in the mass media (a preconceived notion I believed for well over a year working within this service). But I soon realized that I was fulfilling basic human needs through this service. Phone sex is a social service in which callers and phone sex operators can feel comfortable fulfilling the need of a role-play, confession, and human contact since they are unable to do so in their everyday world. It is through the telephone and promised anonymity of phone sex that these needs can be fulfilled and an authentic self is free to exist.
The phone sex operator is conversing with a caller who claims to be a quadruple amputee. What starts out as an awkward conversation becomes light and warmhearted as the phone sex operator tells quadruple amputee jokes to the caller.
Ms. Natas is a school teacher and narrates a scenario that occurs one day after school is dismissed. The character appears to be sweet and innocent however, a slow build up reveals a cunning seduction of a young student she is comforting.
A performance covering the vastness of phone sex. The performance covers the issue of how to provide aftercare through phone sex after being in a space of humiliation and submission. A look into a one dimensional character known as Nympholina (name explai
The jokes on the phone sex operator after the man with no arms and no legs "runs" out of paid time.
A performance showing phone sex as an environment to connect with strangers (sexual or not).
This part of the performance shows the phone sex operator dressed up for a different caller than the one she is currently connected to. The performer sings Neil Young's "The Man Needs a Maid" and dances with the anonymous voice.
Performance of a phone sex operator singing Roy Orbison's "Crying" to an anonymous caller.
The performance covers the issue of how to provide aftercare through phone sex after being in a space of humiliation and submission.
The performance covers the issue of how to provide aftercare through phone sex after being in a space of humiliation and submission.
The lights black out briefly, until a dim light fades on and now the audience sees the same woman dressed in a see through black lace suit, zippered panties, garters, stockings, and boots. Its Ms. Natas turned bad as she takes on the role of a dominatrix
