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.”

  • @SulaymanF
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    -711 year ago

    Democrats make it sure hard to support them sometimes. This isn’t conduct becoming of a representative.

    • kitonthenet
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      411 year ago

      Oh get over yourself, no one believes you’ve never looked at porn, you’re in no position to judge

      • @SulaymanF
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        -411 year ago

        I still like to believe politicians should be role models; people who pay their taxes rather than cheat on them for example. Porn exists but I don’t like the thought of schoolteachers or politicians making their own.

        • Kichae
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          271 year ago

          I don’t like the thought of schoolteachers or politicians making their own.

          And why is that? She had consentual sex with someone, both parties consented to filming it, and both parties consented to streaming it online. Sex is a natural and healthy act, so where’s the problem?

        • Boddhisatva
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          181 year ago

          Nonsense. It’s a job like any other. Stop projecting your morality on everyone else. She didn’t do anything wrong at all. She didn’t hurt anyone. You have no right to judge her.

    • @OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe
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      My teachers had sex. My parents had sex. My grandparents had 12 kids, they had lots of sex.

      My politicians have sex, sometimes they lie about who with and make statements about lying with the same sex but still get caught with the same sex. I like a politician who has sex, is positive about the act, is big on consent and privacy, and knows the internet grift.

      If we want doctors and engineers and teachers and lawyers and cops and businessmen and construction workers and whomever else being represented in our government, if we want experts there to make the laws, I think it would behoove us to have a sex worker or two.

      I’d pay for Mitch McConnel nudes (consensually sold) if only to say I owned copies of that tortoises’ scrotal sack.

    • @SuddenlyBlowGreen
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      91 year ago

      Get over it, lots of people have sex. Unfortunately for us, your parents were among them.

      • @SulaymanF
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        She’s the worst person in Congress already, and yes this makes her even lower. Stop treating this as a zero-sum game.