Vienna Raises Funds with Sex Hotline

Vienna's City Hall has launched a "sex hot line" to raise funds for remodeling and expansion of the city's largest library.

The telephone service charges callers 53 cents a minute to listen to Austrian stage and film actress Anne Bennent read passages from the Vienna library's collection of 1,200 works of erotic fiction from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.

Officials said the hot line would be operational through May 31.