Vienna library launches erotica hotline

AP/Yahoo ^ | 5/8/07

[martin_fierro]

Vienna library launches erotica hotline

1 hour, 55 minutes ago

VIENNA, Austria - This isn't the typical whispering you might expect to hear at a library. 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 39 euro cents (53 cents) a minute to listen to an actress read breathless passages from erotica dating to the Victorian era.

City Hall set up the hotline earlier this month to help the library raise cash for planned remodeling and expansion, Austrian media reported.

Anne Bennent, a famous Austrian stage and film star, reads passages from the Vienna library's collection of 1,200 works of erotic fiction from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, the library said.

Officials said the hotline would be operational through May 31.

[martin_fierro]

Anne Bennent, famous Austrian stage and film star

Unnngh.

[martin_fierro]

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Ich würde es nicht schlagen.

[BJClinton]

This thread is worthless without the number.

Stodgy “erotica” read in German...yeah, that’ll sell.

[EGPWS]

This isn't the typical whispering you might expect to hear at a library. Vienna's City Hall has launched a "sex hotline" to raise money for the capital's main public library, officials said Tuesday.

Okay, dial a hot line, get your rocks off and then if enough money is raised you can go to the library and relax with some reading of Shakespeare.

[dfwddr]

Guilty !!!!

[FreedomPoster]

They’d have to pay me.

[JoeSixPack1]

I’D HIT IT!

I’m brave!
Bold!
Daring!
Creative!
Imaginative!

(Feel free to add your own) :-)

[5Madman2]

I’D HIT IT!

I’m brave!
Bold!
Daring!
Creative!
Imaginative!
(Feel free to add your own) :-)
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You’re wearing your beer goggles :)

[Babu]

Is Anne a boy, or is Anne a girl ???

[bedolido]

LOL... it would be nice if Dell used this idea... however, since Dell has outsourced it's major call center to India... (I know they have some in the USA too)... I don't think a female from India with a "breathless" voice is going to make waiting for 45 (blanking) minutes on HOLD any easier!!!

I work with many contractors from WIPRO (Indian) and the females I see... couldn't get smilin bob to rise to the occassion.

[albee]

"Anne Bennent, famous Austrian stage and film star..."

How do you say "Go Get The Sack" in German?