From Canada.com:
Vienna's City Hall has launched a "sex hotline" to raise money for the capital's main public library, officials said Tuesday.
It's unusual, but it's not particularly raunchy: Callers pay 53 U.S. cents a minute to listen to an actress read breathless passages from erotica dating to the Victorian era.
Awe. Some.
My library is so boring.
That is really cool; but Victorian "erotica" is usually really, really perverse and hardcore. Really.
Posted by: cc | 15 May 2007 at 05:16 PM
Gosh! Wow! The really tragic thing is that the graduate in me is curious about what books they're reading...
Posted by: KAS | 16 May 2007 at 06:24 AM
Yeah, we sent the article to our 'important people' last week with a list of volunteer readers. I'm sure our conservative community would LOVE it. heh. I would SO read.
Posted by: Jackie | 16 May 2007 at 03:46 PM
While this is really really cool, I have to agree. I have a small collection of Victorian erotica, and much of is far more hardcore and raunchy than my modern/comtemp. stuff. Though I am tempted to call myself, just to FINALLY find out how some of that Victorian slang is pronounced.
Posted by: Chrissy | 16 May 2007 at 04:09 PM
The article says that their erotica collection actually spans the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, so it's not even just Victorian Yowza...
Posted by: Leila | 16 May 2007 at 04:46 PM
I agree that is SO awesome. I would love to start that at my library.
Posted by: Renee | 16 May 2007 at 09:34 PM