One of a handful of innovative and/or silly projects aimed at getting out the youth vote, Votergasm.org claims it has in recent weeks signed up 30,000 prospective voters, all of whom have pledged to cast ballots and have sex with at least one other voter on Election Day, shun those who don’t vote, or both.
President Michelle Collins, a 23-year-old aspiring comedian, said the group is still hoping to achieve its goal of 100,000 anti-chastity vows by Election Day. If it doesn’t, she conceded, it will make the stated goal of generating 250,000 orgasms by the morning after Election Day all the more challenging.
Some critics, notably conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh, have charged that the drive is a thinly veiled “sex-for-votes” scheme aimed at boosting turnout for Democratic candidate John Kerry.
But Collins said the effort is "nonpartisan but pro-partying" and does not amount to political prostitution.
“We don’t see it as selling or trading sex,” she said. “We think sex is a beautiful thing that — like voting — many young people don’t realize that they should be participating in,” she said.
The Votergasm project was dreamed up in May by Collins and a group of friends and recent graduates from Harvard and Columbia Universities and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, nearly all of whom are either working in comedy — one is a current writer for the satirical Web site The Onion — or aspire to do so.
It also states that the sex must be “consensual and safe,” then lists sexual positions that will qualify in terms of pledge fulfillment: “Missionary, doggy-style, cowgirl, reverse cowgirl, leapfrog, butterfly, humpback whale, cling wrap, squashing of the deck chair, accordion, reverse piggy-back, advanced ("twin") leapfrog.”
Someone please tell me what advanced twin leapfrog is. Less? Fringey?
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linkage (spree - it's MSNBC surprisingly enough - talking about reverse cowgirl - how very progressive of them 