The next best student job: phone sex?

Have Channel 4 given us the golden solution to our financial troubles?

After the airing of Channel 4’s most recently discussed documentary, My Phone Sex Secrets, last month it seems the outlandish idea of phone sex appears to be a simple way to turn filth into wads of quick cash.

According to Channel 4, “phone sex is one industry booming in the face of the recession” and a job in the business can be the answer to your financial turmoil. By following the life of student Rosa, struggling to balance her loan and her life at university, and now financially self-efficient Marnie, throughout the course of the show, it isn’t difficult to see why. These girls are making serious money by whispering not-so-sweet sentiments in order to please their aroused anonymous callers. Easy money.

But, all things considered, who is the oddest in this situation – the man who rings the sex line or the female picking the phone up? The show sheds light on an unusual mode of work which has helped considerably in funding the young girls’ lives, however it also poses the question: is this sex centred career such a good idea?

Let’s think about the possible daily issues – you’re enjoying a pleasant day out one minute, then discussing whips and chains in the next; you get a call from a man, then the next from your Nan! Dream job or cringe career?

Although, 56 year old Jenny from the show loves her life as a sex symbol (well, in terms of her husky tones anyway) however, she’s pretty much single and living alone. But what about new recruit Rosa? She’s at university and loving her new found success as a call-er girl! But she turned to sex line luxuries after a childhood of military schooling. (Let’s not even get started on the yoga doing vegan who talks of becoming human toilet paper for her dodgy diallers.) Budding photographer, Marnie changed her whole opinion on the male sex completely after being exposed to all their (similar) secret fantasies.

On the brighter side, the job does have its entertaining factors, who says it has to be you who answers the phone? Many ladies enjoy creating crazy characters – how about ‘Jan’ with a food fetish from Fulham? And some people just enjoy a good old chat. No matter how you feel on the hot topic, this documentary was nothing other than entertaining; although it seems that the industry can make you rich, in the end, is it at your own expense?

Missed the show? Catch it on www.channel4.com/4od