Katie Hill resigned from Congress a few years ago after nude pictures of her were released amid a messy divorce and allegations of inappropriate relationships with aides.īut rather than skulking away in shame and dropping out of the race, Gibson has gone on the offensive, protesting the “leak” of the sex performance and prospecting previously undiscovered legal territory by calling the distribution of the videos “an illegal invasion” of her privacy and a “sex crime” against her. Some politicians don’t try to tough it out. New generations of politicians have grown up in a world where it’s commonplace to record their every move and misadventure, so we can expect to see more of this in the coming years. Today, people’s lives are more and more online. While the Post story might seem to spell the nurse practitioner’s political ruin, we shouldn’t be so hasty to write her off. But never before Gibson’s case has a politician’s hot video action spread on the internet. And, of course, in 1998, President Bill Clinton collapsed the day’s existing moral standards when he did the same with an intern inside the White House.Īnd so on.
In the 1990s, Congress could have passed for a swingers club as a passel of high-ranking members, including Bob Barr, Dan Burton, Robert Livingston, Newt Gingrich, Henry Hyde and Pete Domenici engaged in sexual affairs. Barney Frank, lived with a male escort who said he ran his prostitution service out of Frank’s apartment. A number of members have been convicted for having sex with underage pages. Members of Congress always seem to be getting busted for hiring prostitutes. Politicians have long transgressed polite society’s sexual boundaries. And they solicited “tips” for performing requested moves.
Susanna Gibson, a Democratic nominee for a competitive seat in the Virginia House of Delegates, toppled a previously untouched political taboo this week when the Washington Post fairly reported that she and her husband had performed sex acts on the online forum known as “Chaturbate,” where the couple had 5,700 followers.
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