The rest of the world may have been shocked and appalled when New Yorker writer Jeffrey Toobin was suspended after reportedly getting caught masturbating during a work meeting.
But phone sex operator and cam model Jessie Sage was unfazed.
“I work during the day,” the Pittsburgher told The Post. “My clientele is people who are all working.”
“Almost every day a client tells me they are jerking off while [in] a meeting,” she tweeted.
Some have even developed a kink for doing it during what is now a banal staple of the work-from-home life — video meetings, sex workers told The Post. Sage’s clients on sites, such as OnlyFans, have lately started ordering bespoke videos that relish their unique fantasies for a price.
“Last week, a client had me make a custom clip pretending I was in a Zoom meeting,” Sage said. “All I did was set up a desk, sit in front of Zoom, hit record and talk to the camera as if I was talking to somebody.”
Instead of dirty talk, she started the video “in business mode” talking about customers. The man paid $100 for the 10-minute clip. What he did with the clip is anyone’s guess.
Sage, who has been working in the sex industry for five years, didn’t find the request strange.
“I think a lot of times people eroticize circumstances they have to deal with all the time in life,” she said.
But it’s not all fetishes. Most of her clients keep cam sites up in the background at work “to have something interesting to look at,” especially now that most people are working from home, said Sage, who is in her 40s. Often, while she’s broadcasting, her viewers will let Sage know that they’re stepping away to take a work call.
“Most people can manage that without getting in trouble for it,” she said, alluding to Toobin’s career-jeopardizing incident. “They keep their camera where their camera’s supposed to be.”
Although it’s a regular experience for Sage, she’s “not at all making excuses for [Toobin’s] behavior,” she said. “It’s a consent violation to have your co-workers watch you do that when they didn’t sign up for that.”
On Twitter, the hashtag #MeToobin began trending Tuesday as social media users called Toobin’s actions a form of sexual harassment.
Webcam model Avery Madison said she wouldn’t knowingly partake in a circumstance like the one Toobin was accused of doing.
“If there are other people there that are not consenting to this, that’s not something I’m willing to do,” said Madison, who’s worked in the industry for eight years and lives in Florida. At least once a week, her clients tell her that they’re using her services during work. If they’re alone, “they’re adults, that’s their decision,” she said.
“I think they get off on the secrecy of it, it kind gives them a rush that they might get caught,” she said.
Non-nude fetish-worker and content creator Allie Knox‘s clients also put her show on during the day while at work, she said.
Last week, one of Knox’s clients had her up while in an online lecture for school and forgot to mute her show. When someone tipped her, the notification made a noise on his end of the video chat.
“Nobody said anything, it was no big deal,” she said. But, “he was too scared to do it this week and actually went to class and didn’t have me on in the background.”
Because she’s been doing this kind of work since 2014, Knox wasn’t surprised at Toobin’s behavior. “None of this was a shock. A man being busted jerking, wow,” she said sarcastically.
“Men are f – – king pigs, and some of them can’t control their urges at work time.”
