10.27.2004

Votergasm



So my best friend sent me a link to this website called Votergasm. So the title in itself made me go look and see what this site is about. Here is what their mission said...

Votergasm is a non-partisan nonprofit campaign formed to simultaneously reverse two disturbing trends in American society: low voting rates among young people, and unacceptably low rates of youth sexual activity. The focus of Votergasm.org is to encourage young people everywhere to pledge to have sex with voters on Election Night, and withhold sex from non-voters until the next presidential election.Votergasm seeks to send 100,000 first-time 18-to-25-year-old voters to polls for the 2004 elections, and to catalyze 250,000 orgasms by the morning of November 3.

This has to be one of the most "interesting" get out and vote sites I have seen. One of the funniest things I read on there was their "plan is to use sex as a weapon of mass instruction"

Then on the site it asks you to choose a pledge level of commitment for the election:

Citizen:I pledge to withhold sex from non-voters for the week following the election.
Patriot:I pledge to have sex with a voter on election night and withhold sex from non-voters for the week following the election.
American Hero:I pledge to have sex with a voter on election night and withhold sex from non-voters for the next four years.

There is also a section where people can host Votergasm parties and that section is crazy... it's people who are hosting parties in their apartments for people who are willing to commit to their pledge and some of the funniest ones are from college kids who are like we are having a votergasm party in room 111 in XYZ Hall on the campus of... I swear this is a whole new level of motivating people to vote.

Now yall know I'm all about encouraging people to vote and get their voices heard... I'm not promoting promiscuity or unsafe sex but hey do what works (I'm not saying that I'm going do it though haha)