Susanna Gibson isn’t your average suburban mom of two. The forty-year-old nurse practitioner is running for a seat in Virginia’s House of Delegates. But before that, she was earning tips by performing online sex with her husband, on her account called the “Hotwifeexperience.”
As recently as last year, Gibson was live-streaming videos of herself and her husband to the website Chaturbate where she encourages viewers to pay her tokens for incrementally flagrant acts to, she jokes in one clip, “raise money for a good cause.”
Cockburn doubts this is the most undignified thing a candidate has done for donations. It sure is a lot livelier than Doug Burgum’s giftcard scheme to qualify for the GOP debate stage.
In her streams, Gibson could be seen prompting her 5,770 followers for “tips” in exchange for various sexual acts with her husband, who looks like a lost, and less talented, Manning brother. Tips are paid in the form of “tokens” purchased through the site. Asking for them apparently violates Chaturbate’s house rules. “Requesting or demanding specific acts for tips may result in a ban from the Platform for all parties involved,” the site’s policy says.
Gibson is a shrewd businesswoman though and won’t often settle for a measly one or two tokens. “I need, like, more tokens before I let him do that,” she responded to a request to perform a certain act with her husband. “One token, no. More. Raising money for a good cause.” In another video, she promised that for 500 tokens she would order room service in a hotel so the delivery person could see her naked. “I’m definitely a slut,” she added to clarify for those viewers who were still uncertain.
If elected, Gibson would make history as the first openly polyamorous congressperson (take that, Katie Hill!): Gibson said that she and her husband have “tried swapping” with different partners since she is “ethically non-monogamous,” although her husband “doesn’t like sharing.”
The videos were originally livestreamed on Chaturbate but have since been ripped and archived on other public websites. As of Tuesday, many are still available to view on password-free websites — not that Cockburn has been looking for them, of course.
In a written statement, Gibson called the circulation of the videos “an illegal invasion” of her privacy. “It won’t intimidate me and it won’t silence me,” she said. “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.”
The candidate’s attorney, Daniel P. Watkins, told the Washington Post that the archived videos violated Virginia’s revenge porn law. He cited a 2021 Virginia Appeals Court ruling that it was illegal for a man to secretly record his girlfriend during a consensual sexual encounter. Now that the videos are circulating for free, Cockburn understands why the enterprising candidate is mad, but someone has to remind her that she was the one to post them.
After examining the evidence carefully, Cockburn has just one concern — Gibson’s campaign ads claim that she is standing up to special interests. Shouldn’t that be, er, “specialist”…? Anyway, the Democrats should fast-track her into the governor’s race against Glenn Youngkin: Cockburn knows star quality when he sees it.
