Jamie Reidy discusses a Virginia lawmaker’s wife’s using sex as a political weapon to protest the Republican transvaginal ultrasound bill.
HuffPo’s John Celock shares the story of how a political stance hit a politician surprisingly close to home.
On the way to his seduction, Albo found a news channel that mentioned his name in the context of the ultrasound bill. On Rachel Maddow’s show on MSNBC, Englin was discussing the ultrasound bill.
Unfortunately for Albo, he and his wife stopped to watch the show — and his warm bed turned into a cold shower.
Apparently, Virginia – despite what its bumper stickers claim – is not for lovers.
Poor State Del. David Albo. The guy was just trying to break off a little sumthin sumthin, and he gets sabotaged by a work colleague.
The lawmaker whose remarks caused the bedroom boycott is named Englin. Does that mean “Englin-ed” is the new “cock blocked?”
If a politician’s wife leaves him high and dry, does that give him “blue bills?”
I wish Rep. Albo had revealed the “mood music” he selected. From his spouse’s ‘Skins fetish, sounds like he shoulda played the fight song.
Is this the first time a politician’s wife has used her sex veto?
Photo courtesy of djwingsia
I would be much more turned off if my husband then retold this story and was unable to say the word “vaginal.”
As he did. “Trans-v” is what it is to Albo.
A modern-day Lysistrata? Well done 😉
I hope that we do not have another political sex scandal really soon.
Isn’t withholding intimacy a part of psychological abuse? I can see the reason she’s using it but is it really acceptable?
It can be a part of abuse, but doesn’t mean it is in this case. Perhaps she was so offended and turned off by his participation in the bill that the thought of having sex with him was abhorrent. Would you have her have sex with him regardless of her feelings? That’s a rhetorical question, of course. One might also perceive his willingness to tell the tale of that night (did she give him permission to talk about their sex life in session on camera?) as a vindictive move to get back at her. I could easily see that as… Read more »
Whoa. Back up.
We’re talking about a bill on the table to require the rape of women as a condition of exercising their right to ownership of their own bodies, and you’re worried that a woman skipping sex with her husband ONCE is abuse?
What is expecting women to have sex on demand EVERY TIME regardless of their own feelings? That’s not abuse somehow?
It’s a terrible bill. We have it here in Texas. It’s appalling. It hits so deep that I can’t imagine why young women would risk PIV intercourse anymore, not even out of protest, but just, like the men say, why risk it, pregnancy. And if I knew that my husband had voted for a bill like that? Yeah, the thought of mutually joyous connection in a sexual way would be very hard to achieve. That being said, the whole story seems really “pat” you know? Like I’m cynical enough to think it didn’t happen at all, because of the way… Read more »
Also, I realize that there have been addendum measures attempted (anal exams for men) on bills like this. I have no doubt that the women congressmen involved in those were doing it solely out of an attempt to show just how ri-fucking-diculous the bills are. But if someone out there actually seriously required a irrelevant exam to get a relevant procedure (anal exams or something for heart meds, or viagra) against the statements of doctors, I’d be against that too. We have a clear case of politics gone very very bad in this country, influenced directly by religion with a… Read more »
Didn’t read the HuffPo article close enough, my bad. I’d slap myself if I could :S. Seems it was a one off for her and what I thought was completely different. Apologies for the mass slipup! If he doesn’t change his mind though, will she divorce him and/or make life a misery for him? I’d be surprised if she didn’t if he’s that disgusting. And yes the law seems pretty f’d up. Is there a cliff notes version of the bill to explain it better, my lack of sleep + highly emotionally strung weekend brain seems to suggest to get… Read more »
Englin just happends to be the “representative” from my district too! Sometimes I feel Northern Virginia should secede from the rest of Virginia like West Virginia did. I am really afraid…..is retard contageous?
Being a member of that district, Mark, do you feel Jamie’s prediction that Englin-ed is going to replace “cockblocked” in American vernacular is going to come true?
Or is it just too entirely impossible to say?