A candidate in a high-stakes legislative contest in Virginia performed sex acts with her husband in live videos posted on a pornographic website while asking viewers to pay them with “tokens" or ”tips” for individual requests.

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.”

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    2004·
    2 年前

    I could not care less about such a thing when it comes to a candidate and I wish no one else would either.

    • originalfrozenbanana@lemm.eeEnglish
      1432·
      2 年前

      She’s being accused of…having sex with her husband lmfao

      Now let’s cut to a montage of all the elected men who fucked around on their spouses and had no consequences

    • rayyyy@kbin.social
      78·
      2 年前

      If she was anti porn it would be an issue. If she bill herself as a “good Christian”, it would be an issue. If it was legal, so what? Porn-loving self professed Christians likely won’t vote for her though.

  • rhacer@lemmy.world
    169·
    2 年前

    Where’s the problem? She and her husband were obviously consenting, the viewers were consenting.

    Who the hell cares.

  • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
    1182·
    2 年前

    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

    • TheFriar@lemm.eeEnglish
      51·
      2 年前

      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.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      20·
      2 年前

      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.

  • blackstampede@sh.itjust.works
    56·
    2 年前

    The videos were pretty standard sex between her and her husband. Honestly, it’d be cool if they just owned it- respond to gotcha questions at debates etc with a shrug and a “yeah, so?” explain how to tip through the various platforms and then give people links. Seems like reacting as if it’s shameful just gives right-wing scolds leverage.

  • Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.ee
    54·
    2 年前

    The only difference between this and other sex scandals that Republicans have ignored is that in this case the woman consented. I’m therefore forced to conclude that they believe consent is the problem. Men can rape all they want because men are dumb animals who just grab women by the pussy and have no actual moral agency, and a woman being raped isn’t an issue because she didn’t want to do it and is therefore “morally intact”. Sex is only a scandal if it’s not straight, or if the woman consents. Both of those represent wilfull violations of the rules of their death cult, and must be punished.

  • Evie @lemmy.world
    48·
    2 年前

    They (the GOP) Had no problems with Melania Trump’s naked photos and infact praised her for being so “bold and beautiful” 🤮🤢 but they have a problem with a (“one”) Man and (“One”) women who are married to each other hosting naked photos of themselves… and they do not realize the leopards feasting on their faces? Or is that shock and adrenaline keeping them from noticing lmao 🤣😂 fuck the hypocritical GOP fascist…

  • hdnsmbt@feddit.de
    46·
    2 年前

    So? Oh no, someone’s having a sex life? Get fucked, prudes. Literally. It’ll help you loosen up a bit.

    • utopianfiat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      181·
      2 年前

      Someone here did break the law: The GOP operative source and the Wapo and AP who are obstructing justice by hiding their identity

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      2 年前

      She probably didn’t break a law, but that may also depend on when and where this happened. Virginia passed a low that went into effect recently banning websites from showing content “not appropriate for children” without age verification. I doubt a user posting a video is responsible for it though, and the website may have required it (but some do not still).

    • WhipTheLlama@lemmy.world
      1115·
      2 年前

      While it’s perfectly legal to record your own sex tape and sell access, I can’t imagine how stupid you have to be in order to run for office and think it won’t become public and negatively affect your campaign.

      She should have come forward with the information when she first decided to run. She would have been able to control the message.

  • fruitleatherpostcard@lemm.eeEnglish
    302·
    2 年前

    Yet if she was advocating for guns and straight-up shooting political competitors, and a GOP, she’d be feted as ‘standing up for American values’.

  • HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com
    25·
    2 年前

    I hope that one day our culture moves past this sexual shame bullshit so that grown adults doing completely legal things with each other don’t have to worry about shamed for crap like this.