Yes, And…. The First Rule Of Improv

Found on Wikipidia under Improvisation.
“It is the responsibility of the other improvisers to accept the offers that their fellow performers make; to not do so is known as blocking, negation, or denial, which usually prevents the scene from developing. Some performers may deliberately block (or otherwise break out of character) for comedic effect — this is known as gagging — but this generally prevents the scene from advancing and is frowned upon by many improvisers. Accepting an offer is usually accompanied by adding a new offer, often building on the earlier one; this is a process improvisers refer to as “Yes, And…” and is considered the cornerstone of improvisational technique. Every new piece of information added helps the improvisers to refine their characters and progress the action of the scene.”

Well, this is also kind of my rule of thumb for Phone Sex. One, because Phone Sex is nothing more than an improv scene… just a filthy one where the goal of the scene is generally always the same. These scenes tend to have happy endings! “Yes, And…” works because you don’t want dead air, because you want to move the scene along further. But mainly (and it’s just kind of common sense to me) is that NO ONE is going to ask you a question during phone sex if they want the answer to be no.

Mr.: “Do you like sucking toes?”

Me: “Nope.”

There is no reason for him to ask unless he want to give you the opportunity to say you like it, (without him telling you, “Tell me you like sucking my toes and that you want to suck mine.”) If you are going by the “Yes, And…” rule then him asking, “Do you like to suck toes?” is exactly giving you the opportunity to say, “I love sucking toes and I want to suck on yours. Yum!”

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The fictional play is based on a blog I wrote while working as a phone sex operator and I did that job over 15 years ago.

The blog you’re looking now.

Even then friends thought phone sex was kind of light and fluffy – how can there be any money in that? It already seemed old fashioned. A friend told me, he assumed I must have been lying and just didn’t want to admit that I was camming. I think that says more about what he was googling than where the money is in online sex work. 

I wasn’t lying and it wasn’t light and fluffy. You might assume now – 15 years later – phone sex… NOW it must be old fashioned. It must be a thing of the past like your  landline – the things that people wanted to talk about then they still want to talk about now. They are the things that often (hopefully) the closest you get to them are only in your mind. 

The blog was bad. It is bad… I’m cringing while rereading it now.

It was anonymous. My daily views were like zero to two. I sent it to a couple of friends who just expressed their concern for me and how they read some of it, but they weren’t able to keep reading it. 

One day, my phone was going a little berserk, and I was getting notification after notification. I freaked out. I went online and I saw that a more popular blog had found mine and reblogged it and in less than 24 hours it had been viewed like over 10K times. I logged on and I made it private so that no one could look at it. I know 10K doesn’t seem viral by today’s standards… I mean, I posted my mom on Tiktok and she got over 8 million – but it was different then and at the time, 10K in a day was way too much. Why put something online, if all you do once people look at it is hide it? I wrote quickly and badly. And I was writing honestly… and honestly… I…