Here's an emergency sex thread while matcom revels in Soxmania.
http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2004/10/21/gotv/index.htmlGetting out the vote by putting outGroups like Votergasm.org and FTheVote are appealing to youthful lust to schwing the election.
Oct. 21, 2004 | On Oct. 11, four co-founders of a Web-based youth activist group gathered in a small apartment in Manhattan for their weekly meeting. Chairs were pulled into a circle, and iPods and cellphones were dropped onto a wooden trunk-cum-coffee table. The attendants were well-groomed and collegiate looking. Wheat Thins and Oreos were going around. The host of the meeting, a 23-year-old publicity assistant named Julie Binder, sat barefoot on the floor, occasionally tapping out notes on a laptop.
The night's agenda was finding a venue and sponsors for the group's election-night party, and with just over two weeks until Nov. 2, the mood was serious. They considered bars called APT, Piano and Happy Ending. The space would have to be large but cozy, hip but relaxed, and it would need to have a television for watching the election results come in. Also, added Peter Koechley, a 23-year-old Columbia grad, it should be someplace "where it's easy to have sex where no one notices." The others nodded in agreement.
The party in question would be the climax (if you will) of Votergasm.org, a nonpartisan activist group whose Web site encourages "young people everywhere to have sex with voters on Election Night, and to withhold sex from non-voters until the next presidential election." Votergasm also features racy voting-themed photo spreads and a game in which players must guess a voter's party affiliation based solely on the person's head shot. The group's goal, according to the Votergasm home page, is 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."
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