The History of Phone Sex

Phone sex has had enormous popularity for many years, but like everything else in the modern world, it has changed and advanced remarkably. In this article, we explore the colourful history of British phone sex, which finally gave rise to the development of adult chat-based babe channels like Babestation. Prepare to learn a tonne of information that you didn't know!

The early days 

The phone sex industry has many myths that are proudly and affectionately told. But the truth is that a lot of the improbable tales are accurate! One such tale claims that a couple of men who  once worked as telecom engineers put a number of telephone lines in an abandoned public restroom in the early 1980s. A cassette player was located at the end of each line. Each toilet cubicle has one line and one cassette player! An audio tale was played continuously on each cassette player. The engineers had figured out a way to automatically answer the lines, so that when someone called, the phone would ring a few times before playing out a story. Each tale was recorded by a young woman with an extremely seductive voice who would describe her fantasies or her sexual encounters in fairly graphic detail. However, foul language like the word "Fuck" was avoided. Anal sex was not described because it was prohibited at the time. The female "reached orgasm" as her story approached its climax, and there would be a lot of groaning and heavy breathing toward the end of the story, which typically lasted around three minutes.

0898 STORIES

A mobile phone at this time was roughly the size of a house. Well, not quite, but frequently they had enormous, hefty batteries that, with any luck, would last for 6 to 8 hours. In fact, they were so hefty that many women were unable to carry a phone by themselves. Only high-fliers had a car phone, and the majority of people didn't even know what a cell phone was (which, by the way, was also big and clunky.)

Although premium rate billing had already been developed by British Telecom, no phone sex or adult-related activities took place on the lines. So, it took a lot of courage for these astute, business-minded individuals to try offering the first-ever paid-for, premium-billed phone sex services. In order to avoid being found, they originally filled the lines with recorded stories using the BT premium rate number billing. They did this in a variety of "underground" locations. British Telecom didn't anticipate that move! The phone numbers were initially printed on cards, distributed outside of nightclubs, hidden in bars, and left in phone boxes. Additionally, they were promoted in the personal columns of the neighbourhood newspapers.

Obtaining the recordings in the first place was another problem. How were real women asked to compose and record phone sex stories by telephone engineers? Simply said, that sort of stuff wasn't done. Finding willing individuals was not an easy task. As more businesspeople realised that there was large, booming business to be obtained, things were also heating up.

In actuality, two women who performed several different accents and voices for the hundreds of original phone sex recordings (totally independently of one another) produced the majority of them. The recordings were altered so that the listeners couldn't tell they were the same girls by speeding up, slowing down, or adding effects. Nevertheless, the stories were frequently enjoyable and undoubtedly provocative. The girls seemed fully engaged in their racy stories, and their orgasms seemed sufficiently real. They were well-liked, and several calls to listen-in were made. The tabloids began publishing scandalous stories about phone sex lines.

BIG PHONE SEX LINES

British Telecom had a difficult time figuring out which numbers were being utilised for phone sex. They would then cut the lines when they did. However, our resourceful people would frequently find a workaround and already have hundreds of numbers prepared. British Telecom eventually developed the 0898 prefix, which is exclusively to be used for adult-related applications.

The British phone sex industry was now officially well underway because it was legal. At this time, there weren't many adult magazines like Penthouse and Mayfair, but the entrepreneurs jumped in and published full pages of 0898 phone sex lines. These advertisements frequently had something for everyone and appeared busy. The adverts and the content were highly suggestive because the lines were restricted, with phrases like "French maid polishes your knob" or "Busty college chick loves it hard." Full nudity was prohibited in the advertisements, and any open legs had a tiny star placed on them to hide the females' "bits."

Now picture yourself as a man. You have never overheard a woman speaking sensually on the phone. You had never given phone sex any thought. All you could do was get a girlfriend or a one-night stand, purchase a copy of Penthouse, browse through the photographs, or read one of the sleazy tales inside, and then do nothing else. You might also order one of David Sullivan's pornographic movies through mail or purchase one in a sex shop. For hundreds of millions of British men, the ability to view the images in a soft porn magazine and listen to a real women having an orgasm while plainly enjoying talking about sex gave their lives a new dimension. Phone sex was a lucrative industry. The original business owners were soon travelling in luxury cars. More business owners joined the bandwagon.

THE PHONE SEX INDUSTRY GROWS

In order to keep up with the tremendous increase in 0898 phone sex advertising, Northern and Shell, which had the UK production rights for Penthouse, began publishing reams of new pornographic magazines. Asian Babes, Electric Blue, you name it—they made it. And as the ads increased, so did the punters. 0898 was everywhere.

One of the original two girls who recorded phone sex had already set up a full studio in her East London cellar at this point.   She quickly progressed to producing hundreds of scripts per week for various businesses.   In less than a year, this now professional phone sex performer was training up new performers, teaching them how to sound like they were actually having an orgasm, recruiting them among her friends, and cranking out hundreds of recordings each month. The phone sex stories became immensely popular. 

THE ERA OF LIVE PHONE CHAT

Something else was forming in the background as competition grew and the 0898 phone sex market grew. By this time, some ladies had also entered the phone sex scene. These women would covertly promote live phone sex using a mobile number while using the bulky mobile phones that were available and a credit card terminal that belonged to a florist or other small company. The "receptionist" on the other end of the phone—who was frequently the marketer herself—would take the caller's credit card information. Then, a chosen girl would call the guy back and engage in live phone sex with him. These were also incredibly prosperous enterprises.

The British live phone sex industry and eventually the live cam industry would develop from this eventual union of premium rate billing and live phone sex. However, the journey there was still arduous and difficult.

80s LIVE PHONE SEX

Around the UK, quite a few live phone sex businesses had sprouted up by the end of the 1980s. Generally speaking, these were tiny firms owned and operated by lone entrepreneurs, many of whom were women. In actuality, these women frequently handled every aspect of their businesses. They displayed commercials, took calls from customers, processed credit cards, and then called the customers back for phone sex.

The 0898 industry, whose recorded accounts of orgasmic ladies had huge popularity, helped to fuel demand. Therefore, it was only natural that more and more men would prefer having genuine, individualised phone sex to simply listening to a recording. Call a "receptionist" (who was frequently the marketer herself), and have the caller enter their credit card information. Then, a chosen girl would call the guy back and engage in live phone sex with him. These were also incredibly prosperous enterprises that were doing well.

LIVE PHONE SEX GROWS

Soon, the initial "single lady phone sex company" owners were hiring more girls to manage larger enterprises because they were so busy. How did this function?

• Owners of live phone sex companies frequently possessed a collection of the bulky mobile phones that were popular in the 1980s. The number on each phone was distinctive. This allowed them to promote a single phone number in a certain media outlet while also knowing the response it received.

• To answer client calls placed on these mobile phones, girls were hired. These women were referred to as "bookers." Soon, these bookers received shift assignments, allowing the company to operate for longer periods of time—some even around-the-clock.

• The booker would take the caller's information, which typically included his name, address, credit card number, phone number, and the kind of call he desired, when the call came in. Choosing between "domination" or "dream" phone sex was frequently an option here. After that, the caller would hang up and wait for a callback. The booker would then proceed to process the credit card, either by dialling Barclaycard or their provider directly or by using a machine. Almost everything the bookers did at this period was painstakingly recorded by hand. How many calls a particular phone received, which clients' information was handwritten on a card, etc.

• If all went according to plan, the booker would then call one of the Live phone sex operators who were on duty and waiting at home, doing the dishes or whatever else! After recording the customer's information, the live phone sex operator would call the customer back to conduct the live phone sex call.

• The calls were often scheduled in 15- or 30-minute blocks. To prevent calls from going over the paid time, the live phone sex operator would therefore carefully time the call. On the other side, if the phonesex agent did a fantastic job, she would finish the conversation and get the customer off much sooner than the 15 or 30 minutes he had scheduled! It was advantageous for the girls to do their work properly and to thrill their client as soon as possible because they would make the same amount of money regardless of how they handled their situation. As a result, they would be able to handle more calls during the given shift.

KINKY PHONE SEX

Given the volume of requests they received, many of the girls who worked as phone sex operators had limited sexual experience themselves. And since guys could now request anything as long as it was reasonable, some of the requests that they made were extremely extreme or involved topics that some ladies were unfamiliar with. However, the phone sex gals took their employment seriously and might thoroughly investigate various fetishes to master their craft. The Marquis de Sade would therefore be read out on the tube by live phone sex workers. Sexual fetish compilations were another favourite.

CONTROVERSIES WITH BANKERS

It was impossible to use a credit card for phone sex in the 1980s. In general, the adult industry was stigmatized. Actually, it had two sides to it. Top page 3 models like Suzanne Mizzi, Samantha Fox, and Linda Lusardi were at the height of their stardom at the time, and page 3 was massive. High-profile topless glamour females like the Penthouse Pets were a staple of every auto, yacht, or hi-fi event. Topless women were everywhere, signing autographs, getting their pictures taken, and standing in front of the newest automobile models. It was also the era of the first high-profile dominatrixes, with figures like brothel owner Cynthia Payne garnering media attention. MPs were seen being paddled by her girls while wearing fancy underwear. Fetishes and sex were in high demand.

However, the institutions disapproved, despite the fact that some of their members were probably happily engaging in sex over the phone or at sex parties in their personal lives. As a result, the live phone sex companies frequently had a "front." Some live phone sex business owners have credit card processing services for other enterprises they genuinely did run. This made it much simpler for them to channel their phone-sex revenues through these. Others bought credit card facilities from outdated companies that had facilities but weren't using them or from businesses that had closed but hadn't notified the bank.

But regardless of the credit card capability, it was still frequently simple for banks to identify patterns of the same amounts of money being handled again. Some banks have tracking personnel who could trace down these phone sex companies. Ironically, the banks would fine the phone sex companies if they were found out. How? Yes, that's right. Instead of giving the money to the phone sex firms, the banks would keep the profits for themselves. After that, they would discontinue offering credit cards. However, as the phone sex enterprises frequently had multiple locations, they continued operating as usual.

LIVE SEX BECOMES LEGAL

The sums that the banks withheld from specific phone sex firms occasionally ranged from tens to hundreds of thousands of pounds. And this can cause issues for the phone sex companies who pay the operators, bookers, or advertising fees.

It was once more time for things to alter. It was going to become legal for the first time ever to have live phone sex. Britain was ready to legalise phone sex and make it widely available.

The LIVE CHAT ROOM

Phone sex using credit card payment billing through illegal businesses was already extremely popular by the early 1990s. In the UK, 0898 numbers were still in use, and some of the companies that operated them had figured out how to set up systems that allowed customers to engage in live phone sex.

These firms were typically situated in offices, as opposed to many credit card-based organisations where phone sex workers handled call processing from home. This is due to the fact that at the time, there were a few "centres" located throughout the nation where 0898 equipment could be used to handle simultaneous calls on particular groups of routed phonelines. Notably, some of these locations were in Manchester, on the South Coast, and close to Cambridge.

Due to this, the 0898 promoters and competitors tended to congregate in specific places, sometimes sharing the same industrial estate. These businesses in the same industry frequently had strained relationships and operated independently of one another.

Live phone sex offices, also referred to as "chat rooms," were commonly located on-site at each company's headquarters. The telephone sex industry was poised to take a new step forward.

Often, women ran these live chat rooms. This was due to the lack of awareness at the time of this particular chatline job. It was challenging for men to interview women and inform them that the position might require engaging in sexual activity. Many women were first wary and believed that this would be a cover for illegal or questionable sexual activities, pornographic media, or human trafficking. As a result, women frequently ran the chat room divisions of businesses, or they had a female "boss" in charge of the chat line employees.

In fact, the businesses frequently ran an adult chat line and a "clean" chat line simultaneously. Due to the fact that the chat was hosted over 0898 numbers at the time, the majority of adult phone companies limited the language and sexual topics that could be discussed.

Newspaper ads would be posted to fill the chat rooms, frequently promising fair hourly compensation that was on pace with supermarket cashier jobs. Girls would go through an interview process, get hired, and receive chatline operator shifts. The girls would frequently perform a regular 40-hour work week while also showing up at the chatline headquarters, logging on to the phone lines, and waiting for calls.

Operators would frequently begin their careers on the clean chat lines before being promoted to the adult lines. It was clear that some girls needed training because they had no idea where to begin with phone sex. Girls from chatlines who were skilled at phone sex were frequently used as the trainers. They frequently continued working part-time on the phone lines because they had too much invested to lose, and when new ladies arrived, they taught them for a little additional cash.

TOP GIRLS

A "excellent" phone sex operator could keep a customer on the line for 20 minutes, whereas a "not so good" operator would only keep a customer on for an average of 2.5 minutes. These latter phone sex operators would jump right into phone sex, develop no rapport, have no regular callers, and frequently be uninterested in their professions as a result.

In contrast to this, the "good" operators would be highly sought after and exceptionally skilled. These top phone sex workers would learn to "chat up" their callers and make them feel wanted and comfortable, be open to discussing most fetishes, learn the art of talking dirty, (according to whatever rules were presented to them) down to a T, and actually be pretty darn hot at what they did. This is similar to their predecessors based at home doing illegal credit card chat.

Companies soon started rewarding top operators with incentives and bonuses if they could keep callers interested long enough to call them back. The chat line managers would be given programmes by software experts who were at the time using DOS to monitor the chat line personnel, listen to their calls, examine their average call times, and more. The live chat line business was now off and running.

MILFs

The job of running a chat line wasn't always simple. Being given the chance to participate in a live chat was a huge coup for many receptive girls. Many part-time university students looking for extra money were drawn to the employment. However, older women in their 40s who had been raising their families full-time and whose kids had flown the coop were also excellent candidates. These older women were frequently dependable, happy to have a job and meet new people, and they gave their all to the tasks they did. As a result, they provided excellent phone sex for every client and treated their clients with real affection. Many of these women were MILFs or had become MILFs after having found their youth, identity, and happiness through the work.

Systems for girls to refer their friends to work as chat line operators were frequently set up. The girls who brought a friend to a chat operator would frequently get bonuses when the friend joined, bigger ones if she lasted for more than a month, and additional bonuses after three months.

SEX-LINE TRICKS

Many ladies were content to come in every day, five days a week, and dirty chat their hearts out while never telling their friends and family what they did for a living.

However, if 20 to 50 women are present in the same space at once, issues are certain to arise. groups that are hostile to one another, a lady who sleeps with the partner of another group (sometimes this would happen without the boyfriend or the women having a clue that they worked together).   Managers and administrators of chat rooms frequently had their hands full.

The chatlines were so well-liked that they were frequently operational 24/7, 365 days a year. Days were frequently divided into three or more shifts. Girls dozing off on the lines while waiting for calls was one issue with night workers. However, some females were drawn to this. Many chatline women with kids used to show up after the kids went to bed and then stay home to drop the kids off at school the next day. After that, they would go to bed and wake up to pick up their kids from school, prepare dinner for them, put them to bed, and start another shift.

OFCOM BANS 0898

Adult chatline services on 0898 numbers would only be accessible to certain people, according to a 1993 OFCOM announcement. This was done, it was said, to prevent children from using the services. But since adult phone sex services were taboo, there might have also been unrecognised political difficulties.

To circumvent these laws, British and Dutch businessmen were going to reinvent phone sex once more. A few minor nations in the South Pacific and the Dutch Antilles would become extremely wealthy as a result of what occurred!

Additionally, callers were going to engage in extreme phone sex on direct dial numbers for the first time ever once the constraints of the 0898 numbers were lifted. Because of this, a whole new game for guys to play—the international adult numbers—was born.

BEGINNING OF INTERNATIONAL ADULT PHONE SEX

0898 adult chat lines were being shut down in the UK in 1993. At this time, calling an international number from your house phone cost a lot of money, and the rates for contacting other nations varied. It was extremely expensive to call from mobile phones at this time, which were still largely using per-minute billing. In essence, the carriers hammered out the details of how much was charged and how the profits were split between the nations where the calls originated and ended.

It only needed one bright mind to realise that there was a sizable profit margin to "make deals" and that the cost of contacting some tiny countries was extremely high (often between £1.06 and £1.30 per minute at this time). Thus, these businesspeople discovered a new string to their bows by contacting little islands, frequently located in the Pacific and typically having few inbound calls.

The worldwide phone sex generation came to power once there were no more adult domestic premium rate numbers with the 0898 prefix due to regulation.

CURACAO, THE SOLOMON ISLANDS, AND TUVALU

Users would soon be able to have live, unrestricted phone sex material by dialling a foreign number. At this point, they paid whatever it cost to call that country specifically, which was the standard international calling charge. The billing telecom firm (at the time, British Telecom), the carrier that received the calls (the small island being contacted), and the supplier that generated the traffic all shared the call's revenues (the phone sex business promoting the numbers). Users were merely placing an overseas call, hence this operation was not unlawful. And all of the tiny islands wanted to join!

As businesses deployed their "man on the ground" to negotiate with the international telephone companies and carriers, a sudden increase in telecom jobs occurred.

At some time during the following few years, Tuvalu, the Solomon Islands, Wallis and Fortuna, Kirabati, Tokelau, Vanuatu, the Cook Islands, Curacao, and the Dominican Republic all joined to get their revenue shares.

ADS FOR XXXPLICIT PHONE SEX

Ads promoting these international lines had minimal restrictions in the UK at this point. The only limitations that advertisers had when utilising the international numbers, in contrast to the regulated 0898 numbers, were imposed by the media they chose to employ. Ads began to become more audacious, extreme, and explicit.

Anal sex then became legal in 1994. Prior to now, it was theoretically still forbidden in the UK, even between husband and wife. Advertising might now promote anal intercourse openly and legally for the first time as a result. Advertisements for foreign phone sex lines started to run in the press and in men's magazines. Of course, even a phone sex-style tactic with cards left in public phone booths could produce fantastic results at this time. The entrepreneurs were everywhere you could place an advertisement with an international number. And a lot of people started calling.

In truth, the loss of 0898 number advertisers had first severely hurt men's magazines, making the cost per page to purchase a full page of advertising for the first foreign suppliers relatively low. The businesspeople initially took full pages. To make sure there was something for everyone, the pages were divided into 4, each with a different female and headline. Soon after, the same advertisers tried to purchase every available square inch of every men's magazine to advertise their global reach.

LIVE SEX EXTENDS WORLDWIDE

Giving hundreds of numbers to providers was a source of revenue for the phone companies on the small islands. This meant that the companies that offered international chat lines could actually be quite discerning with their advertising and strategically use each number in just one location or in just one ad, with just one sexual subject, to test their ad campaigns and know exactly where results were coming from. However, originally this wasn't necessary because there were so many calls that the marketers weren't concerned.

Each number was typically promoted to appeal to a particular type of guy with a particular desire. Busy females, lesbian sex, anal sex, or housewives could all be involved. When someone contacted one of these numbers, they would frequently be connected to a live chat operator who, to be completely honest, had no idea what kind of advertisement the caller had seen or what their obsession was. The introduction would usually be about the subject of the call. The good news was that the operators now generally agreed to everything.

THE F WORD BECOMES NORMAL

Most businesses did have restrictions on what the women may discuss. But at this point, profanity was being used often. The majority of the females would never want to discuss the boundary restrictions, which covered topics that were forbidden and some of them found repulsive or simply nasty.

You might be curious as to where the live chat agents are right now. Were the chat rooms and their operators really headquartered in these tiny, far-off islands where the calls were terminated? In fact, a few businesses attempted to locate their live chat rooms on the islands they dealt with. Due to the islands' small populations, this was frequently an issue, and frequently, outside phone sex workers had to be flown in. Other enterprising businesses went to great pains to figure out how to divert the traffic from the islands back to the USA or the UK and succeeded in doing so using a variety of astonishing techniques.

THE DRAWBACK OF GLOBAL PHONE SEX

While making millions of dollars, the company owners who had founded the worldwide companies deployed their personnel into as many minor nations as they could to close transactions. This was entirely funded by the agreed-upon legal portion of phone line income they received from the global carriers. The small nations they were working with were content as well. But there are issues, as there always are.

In the beginning, callers frequently had unlimited time on the line. They did, too. Some unfortunate people fell asleep while connected and woke up the next day with phone bills of hundreds of pounds. Others kept calling and accrued phone bills in the thousands of pounds. British Telecom was likewise making its fair amount of money, but by the late 1990s, international sex lines were starting to cause some issues.

Now enter ICSTIS, live licensing, and the introduction of the UK's adult 09 number. Because of this, Babestation and the modern adult television phone sex industry were born as a result of the next steps that were taken.

The first three adult "live licences" were to be given out, according to an announcement made by ICSTIS, the British phone line industry's regulatory authority, in 1998. On the new 09 telephone codes that were made accessible for these uses, three chosen service providers would be able to conduct adult live chat services. The Manchester-based company Norweb provided the phone lines and numbers for these initiatives.

A provider wanted to install groups of 30 phone lines so they could handle calls in order to provide these services. They also had to provide their bank with a sizable bond as insurance that their services would be legal. All calls were to be recorded, too, and kept securely for two years.

Due to the installation of the required minimum group of 30 lines, the first three providers found that it was easier to each set up their live chat rooms in an office. In addition to adding new machinery, girls were hired and trained to follow the new rules.

SEX CHAT TAKES OVER

International adult sex lines continued to operate, but while the cost for customers to call the services remained the same as before, the lucrative profits that the enterprising promoters of these lines had initially made had already begun to decline.

The cost to the customer of contacting one of the new 09 adult sex chat numbers was £1.50 per minute, which was even more expensive than calling an international number. However, the suppliers of the new 09 adult phone sex lines received fair and consistent portions of the profits.

PROTECTION OF MINORS

The tremendous profits generated by the international adult numbers were undoubtedly one of the key reasons that ICSTIS introduced the 09 prefix for adult sex chat lines. Of course, though, these had also led to issues. Anyone could call an adult international number without a pin code. Despite the fact that many international sex chat companies have always been ethical about disconnecting anyone who is underage, there had been no established procedures to address them, and if you happened to fall asleep on an international connection, you might wake up to a hefty phone bill.

With the introduction of the new 09 numbers, a uniform set of rules and instructions was developed in an effort to completely prevent underage calls. Operators of sex chat rooms become rather skilled at it. No sex until you've had a brief conversation. Search for any indications that the caller may have attended school that day. Obtain the person's birthdate. Companies actually went to great measures to print up identical years of birth and ages so that operators could verify any suspects and disconnect them if they entered the erroneous information for their age or date of birth.

Operators now adhered to a more defined set of rules. In actuality, this meant that once a caller was assessed to be older than 18, they may discuss anything in detail—with the exception of extreme violence, unlawful sexual acts, and a few legal but objectionable behaviours that the girls didn't want to discuss.

Additionally, calls were terminated after a limit of 30 minutes to prevent anyone from dozing off or incurring charges if they failed to properly hang up.

Adult phone sex was now a permanent feature.

A NEW MODEL FOR PHONE SEX

A clever telecoms expert in Essex came up with a technique that would allow phone sex operators to operate from home while still accepting calls from the new 09 numbers. The groups of 30 lines established there employed a similar technique to sex operators set up at an office. But our clever chap here discovered that it was feasible to forward particular calls to a particular operator at a pre-designated land line number. Operators of phone sex could now work safely from home.

Sex chat operators were happy to work from home in the early days of illicit credit card chat. Operators were more more excited to work part- or full-time making sex chat calls from the comfort of their homes now that the 09 lines were fully authorised.

The fact that the new-style sex chat operators could work for themselves and were not required to adhere to set hours was another benefit for the phone sex companies. As a result, this was a great arrangement for the operators, who could schedule their hours around having children or another full-time employment. This provided a superior sex chat service in certain ways. There was no choice as to whether or whether sex chat operators, who worked 40 hours a week at an office job, would "be in the mood." They were required to engage in their obscene talk continuously in 8-hour shifts, on average.

The new at-home phone sex operators could log in, take a few hours' worth of calls, go out and do their weekly shopping or collect up the kids, and then come back in once everyone was arranged or put to bed. Now that they might also get paid by the minute, operators truly focused on providing every customer with a high-quality experience.

MAKING WAY FOR BABESTRATION

By the year 2000, 09 phone numbers have become widely used in the UK, primarily using 0909 numbers. Now that the live licence application procedure had begun, ICSTIS. Now, more businesses may obtain a licence, create a bond, and immediately begin doing business. International numbers were replaced by 09 adult sex numbers.

Additionally, it was now allowed for licenced service providers to use their active licences to deliver services to multiple clients. This allowed a promoter to advertise a project using the service provider's tools and live licence without having to pay thousands of pounds for a bond, set up lines, or go through the entire application procedure. Now, all it required to develop a novel idea was one individual with a radical thought and a lot of guts. Babestation was the idea.

BABESTATION'S INVENTION

Babestation was the first of its kind to feature broadcast live sexual programming to complement the sex chat provided via 09 numbers when it was initially introduced at the end of 2002. A caller has never seen the female he was speaking to directly and live before in the UK. In reality, he was communicating with a sex chat operator who was absolutely anonymous and could have been anyone the majority of the time. He could actually see the person he was speaking to thanks to Babestation. This was frequently the girl of his fantasies. Girls that were attractive, had excellent bodies, and had decent personalities in addition to being hot as heck.

The emergence of babeshows, babechannels, and ultimately adult webcam entertainment in Britain were all on the horizon.

Babestation went live on December 3rd, 2002. On the channel Game Network, it was originally only supposed to air for two hours between 11 pm and 1 am. Just two or three girls performed live shows for Babestation at first. The models were seated next to each other on a sofa with a text box next to them on the screen, and we have to admit that the quality was a little grainy. There were no boobs out or nudity at this time, and the old babestation females wore bikinis. Jessie, Faith, Alexia, and Taylor McKenzie were among the original Babestation models. Following some topless action, Taylor McKenzie became the first female to expose her boobs. Never again would phone sex be the same. Now was the time for the British Babe to rule.

EPG FEVER

What does Phone Sex have to do with the Sky EPG? Are we about to become completely dry and academic? We now examine how Babestation changed the world in the sixth and final instalment of our history of Phone Sex (for the time being, at least). In reality, it was initially just the UK, but it underwent a number of changes nonetheless. Babestation was the innovator who truly contributed to creating the webcam and phone sex industries as we know them today.

Of course, in 2002, viewers had never seen stunning women live on television in provocative attire, bikinis, or shortly, topless chicks. They had never been able to directly chat, converse, or have phone sex with them while viewing them live on screen. Nobody really imagined that Babestation would still be operating after over 20 years when it was began. Additionally, no one would be able to predict what would occur along the road.

By taking a peek at the Sky EPG, we can see how Babestation was the innovator of the UK babe channels. In November 1990, British Sky Broadcasting, or BSkyB, made its debut. British Sky Broadcasting Group plc became Sky plc in 2014. (now Sky Group Limited).

The Electronic Program Guide, or EPG, on Sky is a fantastic indicator of how the live babeshows developed. Because many more Babechannels quickly joined the trend once Babestation ignited the UK with its nightly phone sex offerings.

Check the EPG from 2004. This is the  entertainment section. Babestation was on channel 172 and Babecast was on 208.

SKY EPG 2004

136 - Granada Men & Motors

139 - Sky Travel

140 - Sky Travel Extra

142 - UKTV Style

143 - UKTV Style Plus

144 - UKTV Food

145 - UKTV Food +1

146 - UKTV Drama

148 - Travel Channel

149 - Travel 2

151 - Channel 4 Wales / S4C Digital (rest of UK)

154 - Discovery Health

157 - Artsworld

160 - Life TV

163 - E4

164 - E4+1

166 - Overload

169 - BBC1 (Ireland)

170 - BBC2 (Ireland)

172 - Game Network

175 - ITV2

178 - You TV

181 - Avago

184 - BEN

187 - Reality TV

190 - Hallmark (no change)

193 - E! Entertainment

196 - UKTV Bright Ideas

199 - FTN

202 - Performance Channel

205 - Rapture TV

208 - Friendly TV

211 - ACTV

214 - Live TV

217 - Game Nation

220 - Fashion TV (no change)

223 - OBE

226 - Game In TV

229 - Biography Channel

232 - Hollywood TV

247 - Classics TV (no change)

289 - FX289 (no change)

295 - Sky Vegas Live (no change)

In Feb 2006 there was a revamp of the Sky Electronic programme guide (EPG). Now there was a dedicated Adult section and 51 adult channels straight away! Now we see how Babestation was the launchpad for Hustler, Playboy and other well known Adult Brands from the U.S to enter the UK market.  More UK firms were trying babe shows too.

In Full: New Sky EPG Lineup

SKY EPG 2006

Adult

900 Playboy TV

901 Adult Channel

902 Spice Extreme

903 TelevisionX

904 Television X2

905 Television X3

906 Game Network - Babestation

908 FriendlyTV - Babecast

909 L!VE TV - Babeworld

910 Get Lucky TV - Babestation

911 Lucky Star - Babestation

912 Playboy One

913 You TV2

914 You TV2 Extra

915 Turn On TV

920 Climax3 - 1

921 Climax3 - 2

922 Climax3 - 3

923 SportxxxBabes

924 Red Hot R

925 RH 40+ Wives

926 red hot amateur

927 RedHot All Girl

928 Red Hot Wives

929 Red Hot Climax

930 Red Hot only 18

931 Red Hot Movies

932 XPLICITXXX

933 Playboy TV

934 Adult Channel

935 Spice Extreme

936 Hustler TV UK

937 100% Babes

938 XXX TV

939 Amateur Babes

940 Gay TV

941 18PlusXXX

942 XXXHousewive

943 Live XXX TV

944 18 Plus Movies

945 18 Plus Movies

946 18 Plus Movies

947 18 Plus Movies

948 18 Plus Movies

949 18 Plus Movies

950 18 Plus Movies

BABESHOWS: THE INS AND OUTS

By 2009, the internet was here but phone sex and the babeshows held their own.  Now there were 22 channels and many of the babechannels had become more specialist in their content.

SKY EPG 2006

Adult

906- Babestation

907- Friendly tv (Babecast)

908- babeworld.tv

909- Get lucky tv (Babestation 2)

910- Lucky star (Sexstation)

912- Tease me (Bang Babes)

914- Over18tv (Hotel voyeur)

936- Sportxxxgirls

937- Sportxxxwives

948- tease me 2 (Bang Babes 2)

949- House of fun (Babeworld xxxtra)

950- Livexxxbabes

951- Blue Kiss tv

952- The other side (Babeworld MILF)

954- Northern Birds (sportxxxbabes)

955- Essex Babes (40+ readers wives)

956- LA Babes

957- Live XXX

959- Tease me 3 (Bang Babes 3)

960- Chat Back

961- Just4us ( Babeworld live)

963- HBW TV (Working Girls Live)

EPG 2022

There are now only 11 adult channels available on Sky. But it's apparent that girls and phone sex are still popular over two decades later. Since Babestation's early days, anyone who wants it can now access adult entertainment, including phone sex, in pretty much any way they choose from the privacy of their own home.

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