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Not sure why this is an issue. Women have sex. Yes, it's hot, get over it.
Friggin prudes, I swear.
I think that's the problem, she didn't upload anything.
She and her husband were streaming on Chaturbate. Someone archived the videos.
A month after she announced her candidacy, someone took the archived copies and uploaded them.
A little different than if she or her husband did it themselves.
She accepted money to make a public exhibition.
The motives of the person who re-uploaded, based on the time-frame, make him an asshole.
Sex work, especially of the digital kind, should not be stigmatized to begin with.
Her and her husband are hot. They needed money. They showed some folks a good time for tips. And?
I'm sure her rival has done worse for a dollar.
Good for her... Who cares.
People who did the upload are disgusting PoS tho. You known their intent was with this. I hope it backfires.
She more fit for the job than any clown who hopes to win BC this chick bang her husband on camera... The horror, clutch them pearls harder!
Republicans aren’t upset that it was a lewd sex act. Silly you, they’re upset is was consensual.
Agreed. I keep seeing news outlets trying to turn this into a story, but I just don't give a flying fuck what two consenting adults do on their own time. All this reporting has done is making me aware that an actual human is running for a political position, so probably not the shock and awe they were going for.
Her and her husband were consenting and making money. I fail to see how this relates to her campaign. Unlike others, who fund sex work with campaign money
They weren't even making money at it.
Well, they were consenting lol
Better optics if she just owns it.
Afaik, she hasn’t denied it, she just repeats that focusing on this is a dirty disgusting tactic aimed at her family. And she’s not wrong about that. Unfortunately, dirty tactics are so often used by people without scruples because they’re often effective.
At some point we’re going to have to realize that the “no woman who’s made a sex tape is eligible for office” thing is keeping women out of office. (Sex tapes tend not to have the same effect on male politicians, unless they actually did or said something manifestly immoral, and the number of enby politicians isn’t big enough for a good sample size.)
Lindsey Graham gives off major NB/Ace vibes to me.
Even if your headcanon were accurate, one person isn’t a sample.
Of course. I'm just saying consensus is that he's a gay dude, but I don't think either is true.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
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.
“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 revelation marked an explosive turn in a contest that will carry significant weight in determining the balance of power in the Virginia General Assembly.
Watkins cited a 2021 Virginia Court of Appeals ruling that found it was unlawful for a man to secretly record his girlfriend during a consensual sexual encounter even if he did not show the video to other people.
Gibson, 40, a nurse practitioner and married mother of two young children, won a Democratic primary in June and is running against Republican businessman David Owen in one of the most competitve districts in the state.
Gibson had an account on Chaturbate, a legal website where viewers can watch live webcam performances that feature nudity and sexual activity, according to the screenshots reviewed by the AP.
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I wish all politicians were as sex positive as she is … even though I wouldn’t want to watch the content of most of those politicians…
How on earth did this not get discovered during candidate vetting, and how on earth did her team decide not to get out front of this?
We know from Trump and Boebert that sex work/paying for sex work are now Good Christian Values, doubtlessly she could have found a way to get this out there in a positive way.
So the choice is to vote for her, who got fucked for a dollar on the internet, or vote for a Republican who will no doubt fuck me for a dollar whether I like it or not. Easy choice.
Doesn't your country have senators that used to be prostitutes?
You mean all of our senators since they take corporate money to fuck the country?
Nope, talking about Lauren Boebert being on a sugar daddy website.
Not sure.
However, prositutuon is honest work, being a politician ain't.
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