Sex + Politics == Hilarity

From an article on good old Salon yesterday:

FTheVote.com, a Web site that encourages "sexy liberals" to seduce and have sex with conservatives in exchange for their partner's promise to vote against Bush... FTheVote also provides volunteers with a downloadable contract ("I, the undersigned, acknowledge that in exchange for physical affection ... from the cosignee, I will cast my vote for any candidate other than George W. Bush in the upcoming 2004 presidential election").

...Perhaps the most startling fact about FTheVote is that many people seem to be taking the site's challenge seriously... One such volunteer is Chad Vollrath, a 28-year-old English teacher in Pittsburg. Vollrath says that he was already platonic friends with the Bush-leaning voter he slept with, but the two had long been attracted to one another. "It was a way to, I guess, transgress a boundary in our relationship that hadn't been transgressed at that point," he says. But his interest wasn't only prurient. Vollrath is a fervent Kerry supporter, and wanted to score one more vote for his candidate. He feels confident that the woman -- who now has another boyfriend -- will stick to her promise.

Porn for Progress and just released their first movie, "Fahrenheit 69: The Porn for Kerry DVD." A hardcore skin flick that also strives for social commentary, "Fahrenheit 69" is described by its creators as "the world's first Pornlitical satire." The film features X-rated characters with familiar names, such as pundit "Ann Cunter," a greased-up, writhing blonde who so loves guns that she impales herself on one for the camera... Maybe college kids "who see the character Jorge Bush lubing himself up with Iraqi oil will look at that and think, yeah, what a schmuck, we just went to war for oil," [founder Dick Tater] says.

...FTheVote and its ilk may be capturing the attention of college-age voters, but can reducing the presidential election into a big, flirty, subterranean orgy really be considered progress?

Martin of FTheVote says yes. "How could we tarnish a system that's already so tarnished?" he asks.