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.”

  • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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    1 year ago

    Seems fine. Sex workers are allowed to have political opinions. These were consenting adults. This wasn’t infidelity, because it was a married couple. There’s really no controversy here, unless you think sex is intrinsically a bad thing, in which case you’re probably repressing yourself and everyone else

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      Not to mention this is 2023. A candidate who is naked on the internet was bound to happen and we’ve been saying it for over a decade. Okay, it happened. Can we move on and discuss the outrageous problems we as a country and as an entire species are facing? That’s be great.

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      When Mary Carey ran for governor of California, she didn’t get many votes, but people treated her like a serious candidate. And she was (is?) a porn star.