You’ve probably heard Susanna Gibson’s name mentioned a lot this week.

Headlines blared the torrid news about Gibson, a Democratic candidate running to represent the 57th District in Virginia’s House of Delegates: She performed sex acts with her husband for an online audience and asked viewers to chip in tips, a violation of porn site Chaturbate’s rules.

This information about Gibson was first shared with The Washington Post by an unnamed Republican operative and has since traveled worldwide, blared in headlines from here to India and plenty of places in between.

The Post and other media juxtaposed Gibson’s racy online activities with the fact that she is a mother of two children, a nurse practitioner and a married native Virginian who enjoys meals and board games with her family. All of this information was publicly available before The Post’s story broke, but the media glare now starkly contrasts it with her X-rated online romps with her husband.

[“Hey, leave the working girl alone, prudes!” Of course, if she was a Republican she’d be a whore and have already lost her job thanks to these same people defending the indefensible. ~ Beege]