Senate sex blog suit heads toward X-rated trial

[ckramer]

When Robert Steinbuch discovered his girlfriend had discussed intimate details about their sex life in her online diary, the Capitol Hill staffer didn't just get mad. He got a lawyer.

Soon, though, the racy tidbits about the sex lives of the two Senate aides faded from the front pages and the gossip pages. Steinbuch accepted a teaching job in Arkansas, leaving Washington and Jessica Cutler's "Washingtonienne" Web log behind.

While sex scandals turn over quickly in this city, lawsuits do not. Steinbuch's case over the embarrassing, sexually charged blog appears headed for an embarrassing, sexually charged trial.

Lurid testimony about spanking, handcuffs and prostitution aside, the Washingtonienne case could help establish whether people who keep online diaries are obligated to protect the privacy of the people they interact with offline.

Cutler, a former aide to Sen. Mike DeWine, an Ohio Republican, says she created the blog in 2004 to keep a few friends up to date on her social life. Like a digital version of the sex-themed banter from a "Sex and the City" episode, Cutler described the thrill and tribulations of juggling sexual relationships with six men.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/12/27/sexblog.suit.ap/index.html

[RProser]

1. She said he was a lousy lover. He responded "No fair, you can't

make that kind of a judgment in just two minutes!" His bad for playing hide the salami with a staffer.

Just what the courts need, pure bullshit.

[LiberalFighter]

3. Didn't take much bread to hide that salami

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[Matariki]

10. I agree with you that she's at fault for revealing her partner's identities in her blog.

It's way out of line. If not merely stupidly thoughtless, then at worse it's vindictive and unethical.

However I have to take you to task for calling a sexually active woman a 'skank'. That sort of language is rooted in sexism.

[nashville_brook]

2. yech. Republican sex makes me want to hurl.

[lfairban]

4. Put these two snips together

Cutler, a former aide to Sen. Mike DeWine, an Ohio Republican, (who was defeated in the 2006 midterm elections by Democrat Sherrod Brown) . . .

and

Since being fired, Cutler moved back to New York, wrote a novel based on the scandal, posed nude for Playboy and started a new Web site, where she solicits donations "for slutty clothes and drugs."

It sounds like he is getting out of town just in time.

[BR_Parkway]

5. How totally not surprising for a Repug - this quote:

"He's very upfront about sex," she wrote. "He likes talking dirty and stuff, and he told me that he likes submissive women."

Submissive women. Man = head of the house, god himself said so.

[Miss Chybil]

11. Here's the part that really gets me...

"she wrote."

Totally sleazy, tasteless and tacky. Sex is usually a private event. Noone should have the right to "record" it for the viewing, or reading, pleasure of others without the consent of all parties involved.

[Say_What]

7. Priceless...

...Since being fired, Cutler moved back to New York, wrote a novel based on the scandal, posed nude for Playboy and started a new Web site, where she solicits donations "for slutty clothes and drugs."

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Say_What]

8. Wonkette website: Jessica Cutler: Oops, She Did It Again

http://www.wonkette.com/politics/money/jessica-cutler-oops-she-did-it-again-175697.php

and it appears that Robert Steinbuch just likes suing people, confirming that Repukes really are stooopid. :7

http://www.wonkette.com/politics/jessica-cutler/pervert-sues-wonkette-211320.php




Wonkette saved Jessica's blog before she removed it... With all the other sad news today, this is welcomed comic relief. Enjoy.

http://www.wonkette.com/archives/the-lost-washingtonienne-wonkette-exclusive-etc-etc-004162.php

[NoAmericanTaliban]

9. And here I thought that Repukes were against lawsuites

at least the ones against Corps. She also had an affair with a married Bush appointed gov't manager of sorts. She wouldn't reveal his name. Working on an HBO special. This stuffs been out since 2004, but his is the first I heard about it. She worked for Sen. Dewine - mr. morals - right. This should be big news up & center.

[Joanne98]

12. Washington Sex Scandal Trial Pits Free Speech Against Privacy

December 28, 2006 3:45 p.m. EST
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7005982257

Linda Young - All Headline News Staff Writer
Washington, D.C. (AHN) - While Washington sex scandals involving senators and congressmen are nothing new the newest sex scandal in the nation's capital involves neither. Instead it involves two Senate aides who were involved with each other and are now headed to court.

At issue is a racy online diary that Jessica Cutler kept of the intimate details of her relationship with Robert Steinbuch, who was one of six men she was seeing in 2004.

But the larger issues of free speech versus privacy are at stake as well.

Steinbuch, who worked for the Judiciary, and Cutler, who was on Ohio Republican Sen. Mike DeWine's staff, only lasted two weeks as a couple. That was when Steinbuch discovered that Cutler was re-counting the couples' sexual encounters to friends online and that she was also then intimate with five other men.

After the couple broke up the entire diary became the focus of public attention when it was posted to another blog without Cutler's knowledge, according to a recent report by NBC news.

Steinbuch left Washington to teach law at the University of Arkansas and he filed suit in federal court against Cutler claiming, among other things, that he suffered "a gross invasion of his privacy, subjecting him to humiliation and anguish..."

The outcome of the case will be important for bloggers and those who use such things as MySpace and Facebook to give details of their lives that involve other people, Marc Rotenberg, director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center told CNN.

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7005982257

[Joanne98]

13. Here's her new website. Check out her Please Donate message!

:)

http://www.jessicacutleronline.com/

[Tempest]

14. You forgot to post the link n/t

[Joanne98]

15. thanx

[Say_What]

16. The stuff that the lawsuit's about is scrubbed from that site, but the

Wonkette saved it at this link:

http://www.wonkette.com/archives/the-lost-washingtonienne-wonkette-exclusive-etc-etc-004162.php

[Nancy Waterman]

17. She never mentions his name in the blog

And she doesn't use his initials. How can he assume she invaded his privacy? Surely, by making a big deal of it he ends up far more humiliated than if he had just pretended it wasn't him or kept quiet. I don't see how he has a case at all.

[Say_What]

18. He's also suing the Wonkette. Confirming once again how STOOOPID Repukes are n/t