State House Candidate in Virginia Condemns Leak of Sex Tapes
State House Candidate in Virginia Condemns Leak of Sex Tapes
Susanna Gibson, a Democrat running in one of seven tossup House seats in the closely divided legislature, denounced the “illegal invasion of my privacy.”
Susanna Gibson, a Democrat running in one of seven tossup House seats in the closely divided legislature, denounced the “illegal invasion of my privacy.”
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.
Joke’s on them - I’m into legislators being comfortable with sexuality.
No doubt. Saw the videos, like what I saw. Would still vote for her.
Got a link?
I don't care that she did it, but if you have live sex for strangers on the Internet then you've got to realize that footage can be around forever.
Agreed. Anyone can access it.
If there's anything voters hate more than atheists, it's women that show any sort of sexuality. Juxtapose that with several very high elections and appointments of men who have sexually assaulted women if you'd like to feel a little disgusted this morning.
I'd like to vote for a sex worker for president. They'd be way less likely to assault anyone or be a pedophile than most of the people we elect now.
Yeah I'm sure you will sleep just great after jacking off to a woman who specifically didnt want people viewing her deleted stuff.
Putting things on the internet and expecting people to not find/look at them is laughable. I'd still vote for her, and don't really care.
Also, it's a joke. I'm not going to watch it. From the discription it's way to tame to actually get me off anyway. I need like every orifice filled with something. Preferably some kind of love action tentacle porn situation. Bonus points if their in a fur suit.
So if I understand correctly, our candidate live-streamed sexual activity to Chaturbate, and is mad that someone saved and uploaded the video elsewhere.
Our candidate is a naive idiot.
"Invasion of my privacy without consent" You waived any claim to privacy when you hit the Begin Stream button and invited To Whom It May Concern into your bedroom. The video left your computer and arrived on someone else's computer, and hence permanently entered the state of being "on the internet." You're 40 years old, you and I grew up on the same internet in the same time period, you are both young and old enough to know better.
If you don't want the entire internet to see your gonads, don't upload your gonads to the internet. Probably don't even photograph your gonads in the first place, because your phone probably puts your entire camera folder on the internet anyway.
On the topic of a 40 year old woman and candidate for state office sharing an active and apparently adventurous sex life with her husband: Excellent, carry on. Living as long as I have under the thumb of right wing hypocrites who spend their entire lives trying to criminalize anything except being white, male and straight pausing only to take it up the ass in an airport men's room, I'd honestly prefer a candidate whose take on the matter is "YEAH I like getting dicked all the way down. Wanna watch?"
It's the blaming someone else for something YOU did that chuffs my spuds here. You chose to broadcast. And you can't stop the signal, Mal.
That's disgusting! What website are those tapes kept on? So I can avoid ever going to those places!
Mac get outta here
The moral colors of the pro piracy wing of lemmy coming out in force with no understanding of consent or nuance.
I've made sure to make all my sex videos as Vines, so no one will ever see them.
Who cares (aside from her clearly)? She is an adult and had sex with her husband (wouldn't matter if it was not her husband either). Whoopdie doo. What are her views on healthcare and taxing carbon emissions?
She's an idiot if she thinks live streaming porn of herself online was somehow ever going to be private.
Maybe so but Virginia has a revenge porn law and under that this is technically a crime, as it is intended to intimidate her. No one cared about the videos till she was running for office.
I find it funny that they used the term "invasion of privacy". She and her hubby went onto Chatterbate (I don't know the exact website name) and took tips from others to perform (according to my morning paper). That's a public display. And the fact that it didn't dawn on her that this could be out there is astonishing. I know if I ever put a picture on the internet, it's there FOREVER, and just because I'm a nobody doesn't mean someone out there archived it for later.
Edit: I changed leaked to invasion of privacy.
That something was predictable doesn’t excuse the people doing it.
No? So then she's an idiot and that's clearly not a suitable trait for a politician.
I can't decide if I wrote that a s joke or not, but I'm leaving it.
Can we just agree that if someone does something for fun or profit that isn't illegal or unethical they can just be free to go about their business? I'd share plenty of explicit content of my wife and I were it not for bullshit like this. (Also these days we're old and plain enough that no one would give a fuck, but anyway word would eventually get back to family and coworkers because too many people hate folks just enjoying themselves and sharing.)
Doxxing someone over sex is soliciting harm to them - inciting others to "punish" them for legal, consensual behavior. There is nothing wrong with what they did, but there is something wrong with trying to use it to hurt them, despite the fact that in a reasonable world no one would care beyond idle curiosity.
My comment was about how she feels this is an invasion of privacy not about the legality of the situation. She posted these on the internet with her own free will for money. She didn't have a problem posing for them.when it benefited her. Now, though, it's a problem.
Personally, I have no problem with her wanting to explore her sensuality. Good for her. I stop feeling sorry for her when she then declares it an invasion of privacy.
Except archiving and disseminating in this way is a violation of Virginia law. https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title18.2/chapter8/section18.2-386.2/
So: she was asking for it? Is that what you're saying?
More like she consented to it.
Did you find the site and read the terms of service or are you just making shit up to justify this?
I would be too, that's lost income.
Wow, what a body..I think this was either really stupid or really. I feel like this might have been leaked on purpose to get publicity...pity/empathy from the female voters and lust from everyone else. Whatever it was, she's got my vote!
I don't think it'll hurt her much; though there certainly is some degree of difference between a private video being leaked and a public livestream being saved / leaked, they're still both illegal invasions of privacy and hence this will be viewed by most reasonable people as Republican skullduggery rather than any moral failing on her part.
How come it is an invasion of her privacy if they're live streaming? She's just stupid.
Because consent in one instance doesn't create consent in all instances. It's not just a violation of ethics to repost, it's also legally, copyright infringement, and completely irrelevant to her qualifications.
I think that would depend on the rules that you agreed to when using the website or service.
For example, anything posted to Facebook is owned by facebook. They can do whatever they want with it.
I'm not sure what the rules for 'chaturbate' are.
The best way to avoid ones' sex tapes appearing on the net is not making any in the first place. But that seems to be a bit too complicated for some.
Missing the point entirely. Sex tapes between consenting adults shouldn't be an issue, and leaking them to shame, denigrate or otherwise harm someone should be a sex crime that puts you on a list. There's a fair chance that it is under Virginia law, but I expect governor Glenn "Voter fraud is NBD when my kid does it twice" Youngkin to ignore the law when he likes the criminal.
Yeah, but this wasn't a private sex act. She and her husband performed publicly on chaturbate.
By "leaking" the tape, they literally just pointed people to one of those sites that automatically archives chaturbate shows.
I completely agree that that's irrelevant to politics, but it feels like a stretch to call the taping of a public broadcast to be revenge porn.
What a shitty take.
That should amount to immediate disqualification of the opposing candidate.
Iirc the opposing candidate didn't do this (or rather, can't be proven to have done this)
Never understood why so many women put their faith in shitty men.
Me neither, but somehow you were born anyway.