August 12, 2004
using sex creatively

fthevote.jpg

"Younger people in the left are pro-sex right now anyway. So we're using sex in new, creative ways," says activist Nathan Martin.

This summer, Martin's artist-activist collective, the Carbon Defense League, launched Fthevote.com, a campaign to defeat George Bush by offering sex to Republicans who promise to abstain from voting in the election. Fthevote is based on a simple premise touted on its web site "Let's face facts. Liberals are better-looking, sexier and more fun in bed."

"As an activist, you find ways to protest that the system can't deal with," says Martin. "You throw a brick through a window, and they immediately classify you as an angry radical. You offer to fuck them, and they're nor sure what to do."

(and so it goes)

Fthevote.com - http://www.fthevote.com/about.php

Posted to musings by thereelroundtable at 06:34AM on Aug 12, 2004
Comments

Republicans will lie....so sex as a weapon--morally wrong anyway---will fail.

Posted by Mark at 06:34AM on Aug 12, 2004

Gee, if I'd only known that getting laid would be as simple as pretending to be a Republican for one night :-) Anyone remember Pat Benetars's song "Stop Using Sex as a Weapon?"

Posted by Mike at 06:34AM on Aug 12, 2004