This happened a few years ago, but I just read about it and am wondering — in light of my last post — how well it would go over in a US public library.
Vienna’s City Hall launched a “sex hotline” to raise money for the capital’s main public library. Callers paid 53 cents a minute to listen to an actress read breathless passages from erotica dating to the Victorian era. If you’ve ever read Victorian erotica, you’ll know how filled with circumspection and euphemisms that reading must be. And I bet it’s just as arousing to hear it read by a pretty voice — maybe more so, than the often uninspired stuff I read online.
City Hall set up the hotline to help the library raise cash for planned remodeling and expansion. Anne Bennent, a famous Austrian stage and film star, read passages from the Vienna library’s collection of 1,200 works of erotic fiction from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. (SF GATE)
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