In the music video for her latest song “Kiss and not Tell”, La Roux’s reminds us of 1980’s style late night sex chat lines commercials of the 1980’s and 90’s.

The video draws the viewer into what is about as close to a real sex chat line commercial as can be while the sex appeal of La Roux is equivalent to that of a sex chat line hostess which is backed up by a sexy little pop beat and lyrics expressive of a longing for love.

The singer/artist, hair done up in a wave covering half of her face and sporting a fresh makeover throughout the video is shown singing the song’s lyrics in a spoof of phone sex chat line commercials while her words expresses her pent up feelings toward a potential lovers.

La Roux appears to be lip-synching to the lyrics (another trademark of the era) while in between vintage novelty phones are shown ringing.

In some scenes she is shown dancing and singing inside a retro TV set. Other scenes show her popping up from the bottom of the screen with a telephone in her hand — very much like a real phone sex commercials 30 years ago.

The singer sings her catchy song expressing emotions, or withheld emotions that make her want to “Kiss And Not Tell.”

The lyrics are full of lines that are urging another to get on with a relationship in the manner of a secret chat line.

In the beginning of the song she sings

“Ten Thousand Stories Sent Two Lovers Disguise
You Have Seen The Future Now
A Love That Is Blind
Makes You Want To Kiss And Not Tell”

As she sings “You Have Dialed That Number Now So Where The Surprise Temptations Calling You A Secret Reply” the song lyrics quickly have matched to the video’s sex chat scene and also the temptation to call again once you have called the chat number or the number of your lover for the very first time.

While the singer has suggested in and through her lyrics that her lover or another is backing off she expresses the similar feelings when she sings “all along I have had these feelings I can’t help makes me want to kiss and not tell,” her lover she tries to draw close while on her end she expresses that she has feelings and just wants to kiss and not tell.

The phone sex chat line theme of the video runs parallel as the song is expressing the upside of phone sex chat lines and the sex appeal of more private and intimate interaction between lovers, fulfilling the need and desire for love and compassion privately and perhaps in a way that does not jeopardize personal privacy.

As the song progresses La Roux sings:

All Along I’ve Had Feelings I Can’t Help
Makes Me Want To Kiss And Not Tell
And All I Want is To Come Right Out of My Shell

which further suggests that she is reluctant as the other as she repeats the chorus of “makes me want to kiss and not tell.”

The video for the song clearly expresses the desire for companionship without being too open and straightforward all the while having a love or relationship with someone that can be cherished privately.

The video perhaps shows why sex chat lines are not necessarily bad as some people are shy and less social than others when it comes to relationships.

Twenty-two years ago this month, a young cop named Carol Shaya made headlines that rocked the nation. And it wasn’t for something related to police work either– it was for an altogether different line of “work” that the police force usually don’t dabble with.

Carol Shaya posed for nudie pics on Playboy.

In hindsight, this “discretion” seem a little tame by today’s standards. Surely, there are worse things that a police officer can do in her spare time that are more scandalous than posing for a few shots in a porno mag. As a woman living in the US of A, the land of the free, Shaya is surely entitled to do with whatever she wishes with her body?

But it wasn’t that simple. Some of Shaya’s pictures in Playboy involved her skimpily dressed in what is clearly a police officer’s uniform, with her shirt button strategically opened to display her chest. And on the cover of the magazine itself, the words “NYPD NUDE” were prominently displayed, and Shaya still in the same sexy uniform with the same slightly-opened shirt. It was on the lower end of the risque scale, but since Shaya was a real life cop working for the NYPD, it seemed as if she was representing her office on Playboy’s pages.

As expected, the higher ups at the NYPD weren’t too excited about one of their own being involved in such an enterprise. Shaya was eventually dismissed from office (her posing for a nudie mag was deemed as a violation of NYC’s City Charter and the NYPD’s own department rules); and she was also charged by her own department for improper use of a police uniform and logo, as well as for unauthorized off-duty employment (she was paid $100,000 by Playboy for the shoot).

Shaya did try to counter-sue though, but this was unsuccessful. The court still upheld the cases against her. She wasn’t able to return to work as a police officer.

But while her career in the police force was prematurely cut short, Carol Shaya eventually moved on to greener pastures. And one of those pastures is pretty similar to what she did in that Playboy gig.

Just take a look at the video below.

Riding on the “notoriety” she gained from the Playboy fiasco, Shaya created her own sexy chatline. Looking through the video, the chatline seems to have a unique take on the sexy phone hotline concept.

“Remember Carol Shaya, ex-New York City police officer?” a sultry voice asks. There’s a clip of Shaya herself, in her blue police uniform.

“Now’s your chance to call Carol and talk to all of her friends…”

And there’s a whole bunch of other girls who, like Shaya, are also part of other professional fields. There’s one who’s supposed to be a firefighter, a fitness instructor, and a doctor.

The voice encourages viewer to call the number on the screen to “…find out what’s really happening, both on the job- and off.”

All in all, life turned out to be quite okay for Carol Shaya. She has a few bit pieces in the police drama New York Undercover, and also starred in a direct-to-video film called Silent Pray in 1997. The last known update of her was in 2004, when the New York Times reported that she was working in real estate.

You’ve probably never thought about the mechanisms inside your land line or your cell phone. You pick up the phone, dial it and it signals the number you dialed to ring on the other end.

But have you ever stopped to think about how your phone knows what to do when you dial it? In fact, there’s a dialing mechanism in your phone that may be specific to the time that you bought it; not-so-recently American telecommunications companies switched over to something “tone dialing”. This article discusses the differences between this method and its predecessor, “pulse dialing”.

The History of Dialing

From the onset of telephones, the only method of dialing was pulse dialing, coinciding with the invention of rotary phones. These phones, which are marked by their round dials, sent a pulse every time you rotated past a number, signaling the final number by transferring each sequence.

Because of this system, the person dialing had to let the wheel return all the way back to its resting place before dialing the next number. It worked, but it was inconvenient; in fact, the birth of tone dialing came from the urge to find a quicker, more convenient method of dialing a phone.

The tone dialing method consists of a numerical key pad that sounds a different tone for each button (number), coding a unique phone number with which to communicate.

Switching from Pulse to Tone

Initial trials of the tone dialing system were inconsistent, so it didn’t catch on until about two decades after it was invented. In 1963, the tone dialing system was perfected, and became the standard for telecommunications companies across the country, replacing the outdated pulse dialing (and now-obsolete rotary phone, though these hung around for decades after).

The advantages of tone dialing were simple: Connecting to a call via tone dialing is quicker, more convenient and easier, being done on a device with a keypad instead of a rotary dial. In fact, one could speculate that if tone dialing would have never been invented (or perfected) cell phones as we know them would have never followed.

Key Takeaways

At their core, both systems are used as means to the same end; establishing an internet connection and signaling which number to place a call.

While pulse connections take a considerable amount of time to place, tone dialing is quick, easy and convenient. You may have experience yourself, or have at least heard your elders telling stories about the frustrations of placing a call with rotary phone.

We perfected a new method of dialing to save time, but in the absence of any laws mandating that every person update their phone system, most phones have a switch on their base that toggles between tone and pulse to ensure backwards compatibility. The switch to tone dialing was developed to be more convenient than pulse dialing, but it established a basis for smaller, sleeker phones as time moved forward.

Remember these? While basic in features, these phone sets didn’t lack style. Boy have phone sets come a long way since then. These devices where all the rage during the 80s and 90s.

You can still get some of these phones on eBay and Etsy.
Did you own any of these? Did we miss any novelty phone? Let us know in the comments below!

Sexual issues are not discussed nearly as much as they should. In most cases, the internet serves as a good substitute for information. However, we can’t count on the internet to pick the right thing to show to kids. Sex Chat with Pappu and Papa is a web series that seeks to bridge the gap and talk about taboo subjects in a comfortable, appropriate and most importantly informative manner.

Sex Chat with Pappu and Papa is a new web series about a seven-year-old boy who, due to his inquisitive nature, asks his father about different sexual issues often in a manner that leaves the father at a loss for words. The father may respond in an awkward manner at first but then finds a clever way of explaining things to the young boy in ways he can understand. In the first webisode, Pappu asks about masturbation. The harmless question stems from curiosity about something the boy has clearly heard or read about before. The father proceeds to demystify things using a game of cricket as the grandfather listens in always pointing out what should and shouldn’t be said.

The series, which will air in 5 parts, is the creation of Yash Raj Films under Y-Films, a part of the Indian film production giant created to cater to the younger audience. The project is directed by Ashish Patil, head of business and creative at the film company.

The series was written by Gopal Datt and Devang Kakkad whose combined talents have found them a sweet spot between being preachy and too forthright. Humor helps to close down the generational gap between father and son as they seek to find level ground about topics that would otherwise be awkward to talk about around the house.

The series is set to be translated into 15 languages 6 of which are Indian. Translation will be done in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Bengali. As for the international viewership, the series will have subtitles for Chinese, Dutch, English, French, Spanish, German, Thai, Malay and Bahasa. The producers of the show thought it a good idea to make the series available to as many people around the globe as possible.

Sex Chat with Papu and Papa is a story that revolves around the Watsa family. It stars Anand Tiwari as the father (Anand Watsa), Kabir Sajid as the son (Pappu) and the seasoned veteran Sachin Pilgaonkar as the grandfather Vishwanath Watsa.

While the series portrays the father as willing to answer any questions the son has, the grandfather, on the other hand, would rather not talk about such things with children. His take on the whole matter is that the boy shut’s up, and the father ceases to indulge such questions. He is always checking that the father doesn’t give away too much. As the show progresses, he’s perspective changes as he too learns from the father. Sanjeeda Shaikh also features in the series as Pappu’s heavily pregnant mother, Shireen. Usha Watsa, whose role is played by Alka Amin, is Pappu’s enlightened grandmother. She is well read and will not hesitate to dispel any false logic about sex.

The series is backed with plenty of research from top gynecologists and other medical experts

The choice of surname for the fictional family cannot go unnoticed. Mahinder Watsa, the renowned sexologist, must have been in the minds of the creators of the show. Watsa is known for his outspoken nature of all things to do with sexual education. Through his tabloid in the Mumbai Mirror, the sexologist uses a comical yet to the point approach to debunk all sorts of myths about sex. The similarity of surname is sure going to endear some Watsa fans to the series.

Matters to do with sexuality are not the most popular topics in the Indian populace. The Indian social set up is rooted in conservativeness thus fostering ignorance on many sexual issues. It is a common thing to look around the back pages of news papers and magazines and find 40 year old men curious to know if masturbation will bring about baldness or blindness. In a society that is closed out to such discussions, a series like “Sex Chat with Pappu and Papa” is a great ice breaker. Parents get to pick tidbits of advice from the series and also have it easy as it does all the explaining for them.

In a society that is closed out to such discussions, a series like “Sex Chat with Pappu and Papa” is a great ice breaker.

Y-Films have a plan laid out that will see to it that the sex chat web series is a financial success. It intends to monetize the series through sponsorship deals as well as YouTube advertising. Sales to other platforms that will show the 5 part series overseas will also boost the earnings. According to the director, Ashish Patil, the series could go into mainstream viewing and air on TV abroad. The main sponsor for the series is the condom brand Durex and Ching’s Desi Chinese comes in as the associate sponsor.

The media that Y-Films chose to deliver their message couldn’t be better, given that everyone is on the internet looking up this or the other thing. The younger viewers will especially enjoy it as it takes into consideration their love for the internet.

Apart from making the right choice of medium the series is backed with plenty of research from top gynecologists and other medical experts. Thorough research was key to getting the whole series to gel together. The more they had the more they could do.

Sex Chat with Pappu and Papa is yet another of Y-Films ambitious efforts to push boundaries. The production company has cultivated a reputation for tackling taboo subjects and giving it straight to the audience. Y- Films has had other projects of this kind the most recent one being “Ladies Room.” The web series also had sexual themes showing two ladies who were best friends who want to have sex but do not want to end up pregnant.It is these kinds of thrills that make this one worth a watch.