Photographer Phillip Toledano has put together a portrait series titled “Phone Sex Workers” which is about….you guessed it, phone sex workers. But the way this man portrays them, he instills such a level of humanity to people who are normally just ghosts and figures of peoples imaginations for $1.99 a minute. The above photos are a few of the ones in his book and here is a quip from Toledano:

“Phone-sex is theatre. An artifical passion-play in real-time, directed by a skilled verbal fantasist, only with one possible conclusion.

These photographs of phone sex operators were taken in their homes, often in rooms where they worked. They opened they doors to a stranger, and wrote courageously about their experiences.”

To learn more about this book, which is up there with one of the greatest coffee table books I’ve seen, hit up his site. Thanks to uberphotography.com for the story!