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.”

  • Cethin
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    1 year ago

    This is not about her privacy being lost, it’s about people sharing videos without her consent. She posted them expecting people to see her naked. That isn’t the issue. She’s taken the videos down and people have reposted them on other sites.

    • RaoulDook@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Well, I must refer you to the lady in question’s own words, which were “Invasion of Privacy” - hence this discussion about that statement regarding Privacy.

    • Murvel@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      It’s literally about her privacy, read the frickin article.