A Virginia Democrat who was featured in more than a dozen video streams of her and her husband having sex online for “tips” is speaking out, claiming to be the victim of an invasion of privacy by Republican operatives.
In a recent interview with Politico, former Virginia House of Delegates candidate Susanna Gibson talked about her feelings about the explicit video that surfaced in the run-up to her election loss earlier this year.
“It’s a feeling that I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy,” Democrat, a nurse practitioner and mother of two, told the outlet.
Gibson made waves in September after archived live stream videos of her having sex with her husband resurfaced and were circulated online.
The Washington Post broke the story, reporting that the couple asked for payment from viewers in exchange for certain actions.
The Post led the story: “Va. Dem. Housewives have online sex with husbands to get tips.”
Gibson and her husband were featured in more than a dozen videos archived on a site called Chaturbate in September 2022, which was after she officially entered the delegate race, and the most recent video was archived on September 30, 2022.
Once news broke and Republican operatives shared the story ahead of election day, Gibson insisted that she was the victim of “an illegal invasion of my privacy designed to embarrass me and my family.”
He continued to stay in the race, until he lost.
Former Virginia House of Delegates candidate Susanna Gibson says she is the victim of an invasion of privacy by Republican operatives after a live stream video of her and her husband having sex online surfaced. AP Photo/Steve Helber Gibson said his whole life was “shaken” after the initial Washington Post article was published.
In his recent interview with Politico, Gibson insisted that he was a victim of media violence and the video’s illegal distribution scheme.
Referring to the Post story from September, he said, “My whole life was shaken on September 11, when that article was published. It runs, implying that I do online sex acts with my husband for money. It was actually written based on this self-described Dropbox file by a Republican operative.”
Gibson spoke to Politico about feeling blindsided: “They’ve found this video on the dark web and shopped it around to various news outlets. I didn’t know that there had ever been a video of me that had been made and uploaded to multiple websites,” he said.
Gibson remained in the race, but lost the election. AP Photo/Steve Helber
Gibson added, “When you find out that there are sexually explicit videos of you online, especially by being contacted by a national journalist – it’s a feeling that I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy.”
As for his claim about illegally distributed videos, he said, “Content that was initially created in a consensual context, which is then distributed in a non-consensual context digitally, is a crime.”
Speaking about his actions against Republicans who spread information about his explicit content, he opined, “Choosing to share content, online or in any medium, with select people with the understanding that it will be lost and only visible to those present at the time — when we’re talking about live streaming, webcams and Skype — that’s a long way from allowing that content to be recorded and then widely distributed. And there is case law precedent that confirms this.”
He also told the outlet, “I think what people do in their personal lives, digitally — if it’s legal, it’s consensual and has nothing to do with their ability to do their job — I think there should be barriers. I think that is it is unethical to make people’s private lives — especially their sexual private lives — public and part of the way we think about them and their ability to do their jobs and make positive contributions to their communities.”
Gibson also warned that other women will soon fall victim to the same scrutiny, saying, “I think this will continue to happen as millennials age to run for office. There was a 2014 study conducted by McAfee that said or showed that 90 percent of millennial women had taken a nude photo at one point.
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