Forum Newsfront

April, 1985

Price of PrurienceCarson City--The Nevada Public Service Commission has ordered the telephone company in that state to refund money to customers who didn't realize that they were incurring an extra charge by calling a sexually explicit "dial-a-porn" number. Some 150,000 calls were made to the number during its first month of operation, and the commission said that Nevada Bell had failed to conduct an effective advertising campaign advising that calls to certain recorded-message service...