‘Eros in Secret’

Published 11:29 pm Wednesday, December 5, 2007

While Americans campaign to ban Harry Potter from our libraries, France’s national library has launched a very different endeavor: an exhibition of pornography through the ages.

It’s a peek at France’s long-secret “library of libido,” which was started by the national librarians in 1830 as a way of suppressing smut.

You’ve got to be at least 16 to view the exhibit, called “Hell at the Library, Eros in Secret.”

For The Buzz, hell at the library begins when the little ones are herded in for story time.

Speaking of smut, a virtual Santa created by Microsoft Corp. has turned out to be one filthy little elf.

The cyber-Santa was programmed to respond to kids’ questions. But a British man reported that MS-Santa mentioned oral sex in a chat with his young nieces.

A British journalist was able to replicate the dirty talk in a chat that ended with Kriss Kringle hurling a vulgar insult.

A Microsoft spokesman said Santa’s lewd comment was sparked by someone “pushing this thing to make it do things it wasn’t supposed to do.”

Kind of like when you push Windows to boot up in less than five minutes.