Political intrigue is occurring in a competitive
Virginia House of Delegate race. It’s a sex scandal—sort of. Susanna
Gibson, the Democratic candidate and a nurse practitioner, had some of
her prior work exposed to the public. That was a series of sex acts
performed with her husband that were posted on Chaturbate. The media is
trying to frame this as a leaked sex tape story, another episode in the
annals of dirty politics. The New York Times headline: State House
Candidate in Virginia Condemns Leak of Sex Tapes (via NYT):
A Democratic candidate in a crucial race for the Virginia
General Assembly denounced reports on Monday that she and her husband
had performed live on a sexually explicit streaming site.
Susanna
Gibson, a nurse practitioner running in her first election cycle, said
in a statement that the leaks about the online activity were “an illegal
invasion of my privacy designed to humiliate me and my family.”
The
Washington Post and The Associated Press reported on Monday that tapes
of live-streamed sexual activity had been recorded from a pornographic
site and archived on another site. The New York Times has not
independently verified the content of the videos. The Democratic Party
of Virginia did not respond to a request for comment.
Ms. Gibson,
40, who appears on her campaign website in hospital scrubs as well as
at home with her husband and two young children, is running for the
House of Delegates in one of only a handful of competitive races that
will determine control of the General Assembly. Republicans hold a slim
majority in the House, and Democrats narrowly control the State Senate,
but both chambers are up for grabs in November.
Ms. Gibson’s
district, which is outside Richmond and primarily in Henrico County, is
one of seven tossup seats in the 100-member House, according to the
nonpartisan Virginia Public Access Project.
Here’s The Washington Post:
A
Democrat running for a crucial seat in Virginia’s House of Delegates
performed sex acts with her husband for a live online audience and
encouraged viewers to pay them with “tips” for specific requests,
according to online videos viewed by The Washington Post.
Susanna
Gibson, a nurse practitioner and mother of two young children running
in a highly competitive suburban Richmond district, streamed sex acts on
Chaturbate, a platform that says it takes its name from “the act of
masturbating while chatting online.”
Chaturbate videos are
streamed live on that site and are often archived on other publicly
available sites. More than a dozen videos of the couple captured from
the Chaturbate stream were archived on one of those sites — Recurbate —
in September 2022, after she entered the race. The most recent were two
videos archived on Sept. 30, 2022. It is unclear when the live stream
occurred.
[…]
Gibson, 40, can be seen in the videos
soliciting “tips” for performing specific acts — in apparent violation
of Chaturbate’s terms and conditions, which say: “Requesting or
demanding specific acts for tips may result in a ban from the Platform
for all parties involved.”
In at least two videos, she tells viewers she is “raising money for a good cause.”
In
multiple videos, Gibson interrupts sex acts to type into a bedside
computer. Speaking directly into the screen, she urges viewers to
provide tips, which are paid through “tokens” purchased through the
site. In at least two videos, she agrees to perform certain acts only in
a “private room,” an arrangement that requires the viewer to pay more.
There might be articles and segments about the double standard
regarding women in politics and sex scandals and how the evil patriarchy
is up to its usual tricks. Ignore it all because these clips weren’t
leaked. She posted them on an adult online streaming site, and Gibson
didn’t know they could return to haunt her. It’s like deleted tweets and
Facebook posts. The Internet is forever; if she thought her opponents
wouldn’t use this, she should have remained in medicine.
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