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VA Democrat featured in streamed sex acts online says
she’s the victim: ‘My entire life was rocked'
'Content that is initially made in a consensual context, which is then distributed in a non-consensual context digitally, is a
crime,' Gibson said
By Gabriel Hays Fox News
Published December 9, 2023 3:45pm EST
Nobody committed a crime against Susanna Gibson: David Katz
Brian Claypool and David Katz discuss the legality of the Virginia Democratic candidate posting sex acts online on ‘Fox News @ Night.’
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 a victim of an invasion
of privacy by Republican operatives.
In a recent interview with Politico former Virginia House of Delegates candidate Susanna
,
Gibson spoke about how she felt about the explicit videos surfacing ahead of her election
loss earlier this year.
feeling that I would not wish on my worst enemy," the Democrat, nurse practitioner
"It is a
and mother of two, told the outlet.
VIRGINIA DEMOCRAT EMBROILED IN ONLINE SEX SCANDAL LOSES HOUSE OF
DELEGATES ELECTION
Former Virginia legislative candidate Susanna Gibson recently complained to Politico about the treatment she received
after sex videos she posted online in exchange for payments from viewers went public. (Neil Smith via AP, File)
Gibson made waves in September after archived livestream videos of her having sex with
her husband resurfaced and circulated online.
The Washington Post broke the story reporting that the couple solicited payments from
,
viewers in exchange for specific acts. The Post headlined the story: "Va. Dem. House
candidate performed sex online with husband for tips."
Gibson and her husband were featured in more than a dozen videos that were archived on
a site called Chaturbate in September 2022, which is after she officially entered the race
for delegate, and the most recent videos were archived on Sept. 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
humiliate me and my family." She continued to stay in the race, until she lost.
In her recent interview with Politico Gibson maintained that she was the victim of a media
,
hit job and illegal distribution scheme of the videos.
Mentioning the Post’s story from September, she said, "My entire life was rocked on Sept.
11, when the article ran. It ran, implying that I performed sex acts online with my husband
for money. It was really written based on this Dropbox file that self-described Republican
operatives shopped around."
LAURA INGRAHAM: SUSANNA GIBSON DID A 'PRETTY GOOD JOB' OF HUMILIATING
HERSELF
Former Virginia Democratic House of Delegates candidate Susanna Gibson maintained that GOP operatives committed a
"crime" when spreading her exclusive content without her consent. (Susanna Gibson campaign website)
Gibson spoke to Politico about feeling blindsided: "They had found these videos on the
dark web and shopped them around to various news outlets. I didn’t have any idea that
there were ever videos of me that had been made and uploaded to multiple sites," she
said.
Gibson added, "When you find out that there are sexually explicit videos of you online,
especially by being contacted by national reporters — it is a feeling that I would not wish
on my worst enemy."
As far as her claims of the videos being spread illegally, she said, "Content that is initially
made in a consensual context, which is then distributed in a non-consensual context
digitally, is a crime."
Speaking of her actions versus Republicans spreading info about her explicit content, she
opined, "Choosing to share content, online or in whatever medium, with select people with
the understanding that it will disappear and can only be seen by those present at the time
— when we’re talking live streaming, webcamming and Skype — that is a far cry from
consenting for that content to be recorded and then broadly disseminated. And there is
case law precedent confirming this."
She also told the outlet, "I think what people do in their private lives, digitally — if it is legal,
it is consensual and has no bearing on their ability to do their jobs — I think there should
be a barrier. I think that it is unethical to make people’s private lives — especially their
sexual private lives — public and part of how 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 be victims of the same sort of scrutiny,
saying, "I think this is going to continue to happen as millennials age into running for
office. There was a 2014 study conducted by McAfee that said or showed that 90 percent
of millennial women have taken nude photos at some point."
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Gabriel Hays is an associate editor for Fox News Digital.
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