Comment by raxxorrax
6 years ago
But that girl probably couldn't listen to all calls simultaneously, did not have a photographic memory, didn't live in a society where a sentence could ruin your career, didn't share the deepest secrets with advertisers, didn't act as a spy for intelligence agencies and created a dosier on basically everyone.
I wouldn't have cared much either. But the environment is profoundly different today.
People also didn't have a great deal of privacy at either end of the phone conversation, anyway. The phone would've been in a central location in a house, attached to a wall. Back then you wouldn't be hidden away in a bedroom, saying salacious things.