"By the end of the 1980s, nearly all of the major local phone companies in the United States, plus the major long-distance carriers, were actively involved in the phone sex business[...] In 2002 profits from phone sex were estimated at one billion dollars a year"
And in relative terms in particular that seems pretty huge given how much smaller all the phone and online markets were compared to what they're now.
Well the comparative change is kinda the point. OF is huge and content producers have a chance of making big bucks, as opposed to what was there before
Apparently so. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phone_sex)
"By the end of the 1980s, nearly all of the major local phone companies in the United States, plus the major long-distance carriers, were actively involved in the phone sex business[...] In 2002 profits from phone sex were estimated at one billion dollars a year"
And in relative terms in particular that seems pretty huge given how much smaller all the phone and online markets were compared to what they're now.