In a bid to gain attention as a 3rd party candidate for Congress, Mike Itkis has released a porn video he shot last year with porn star Nicole Sage.

His opponent, Representative Jerry Nadler, has yet to release a comment. I find that surprising because Nadler could probably pick up more than few votes in his admittedly very safe seat by promising to never, ever, in no universe real or otherwise, display his naked body.

From City and State New York:

In a grunt for attention, third-party Congressional candidate Mike Itkis has released a sex tape to highlight his sex positive campaign platform. The 53-year-old Army cyber operations officer is bound to lose to Rep. Jerry Nadler in Manhattan’s 12th Congressional District. But he posted the 13 minute video to a popular online porn site of him having sex with porn performer Nicole Sage as “a conversation piece,” he told City & State. “If I would just talk about it, it wouldn’t demonstrate my commitment to the issue. And the fact I actually did it was a huge learning experience, and it actually influenced items on my platform.” His issues include legalizing sex work, and making sexual rights explicit – “do NOT rely on privacy or free speech rights,” his campaign site reads, where sex positivity is one of just three campaign issues, which are all thin on details. Itkis, whose bio identifies himself as “Not married. No kids. Not celibate. Atheist.” also seems to take aim at child support payments, writing that “men should not be required to support biological children without prior agreement.”

I love that: “In a grunt for attention.” Perfect. The writer deserves a bonus for coming up with that!

Being open about your sexuality has become a “thing” in politics of late, at least among the degenerates among us. And outside of San Francisco the greatest concentration of degenerates to be found in America is probably in New York City. So I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.

Heck, I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that 4th grade teachers have started airing this video in a bid to educate their students about politics in America, although perhaps it wouldn’t qualify because the performers in this video are both white, cisgendered, and appear to participate in nothing notably perverse.

Apparently Itkis is not alone in using this tactic in New York politics:

Sex tapes may be becoming a political trend on the Upper West Side. In 2021, City Council candidate Zack Weiner leaked a BDSM sex tape in an apparent attempt to stir up drama for his mockumentary on the run. (full disclosure, this reporter was interviewed for the film, which is expected to be released next year).

The Nadler campaign declined to comment. Itkis’ Republican opponent understood it. “You gotta do what you gotta do,” ​​Mike Zumbluskas told City & State. “The media ignores everybody that’s not a Democrat in the city.”

I fondly remember a time, way back in the Dark Ages when I was growing up, Leftists would lecture the rest of us that people’s private lives were nobody’s business but their own. Even as recently as the Clinton years we were being lectured that the president’s personal peccadillos such as the sexual harassment of subordinates and the alleged rapes of women were too private to discuss.

Today absolutely nothing is private any more. “You gotta do what you gotta do” to get attention.