A candidate in a high-stakes legislative contest in Virginia had sex with her husband in live videos posted on a pornographic website and asked viewers to pay them money in return for carrying out specific sex acts.
Screenshots of Susanna Gibson on the website were shared with The Associated Press. The campaign for Gibson, a Democrat running for a seat in the Virginia House of Delegates in a district just outside Richmond, issued a statement Monday in which it denounced the sharing of the videos as a violation of the law and her privacy. Gibson called the exposure of the videos “the worst gutter politics.”
“It won’t intimidate me and it won’t silence me,” she said in the statement. “My political opponents and their Republican allies have proven they’re willing to commit a sex crime to attack me and my family because there’s no line they won’t cross to silence women when they speak up.”
Where’s the problem? She and her husband were obviously consenting, the viewers were consenting.
Who the hell cares.
Old people and strict Catholics who unfortunately make up 120% of voters.
that statistic cannot be accurate. And yet it is… yet it is…
That’s gerrymandering and corporate lobbying for you.
The real controversy is that somehow Wapo and AP decided to assist a GOP operative in violating Virginia’s revenge porn laws
Chaturbate TOS:
Virginia revenge porn law:
It’s clear from the TOS that unless Mrs. Gibson expressly permitted dissemination of the materials, that the sites on which they were reposted AND the GOP operative “had reason to know” that they were not licensed or authorized to disseminate the content. That said, it’s hard to prove malintent in a political context. GOP operative could simply argue that there was a public interest in this information being shared.
I’m pleased to find this as the top comment. It summarizes my reaction perfectly.
It was pretty vanilla sex between a married couple without a condom, the only kind of sex God likes. You’d think the Republicans would be thrilled.