The U.S. House race in Virginia's 5th congressional district has gone national because, well, who can resist a story about Bigfoot erotica? On Twitter over the weekend, Democrat Leslie Cockburn accused her opponent, Republican Denver Riggleman, of being "a devotee of Bigfoot erotica," posting (safe for work) images from Riggleman's Instagram feed. In the captions, Riggleman alludes to a book he's writing, The Mating Habits of Bigfoot and Why Woman Want Him.
"Now, Riggleman says the images were a joke, he insists he's not into sexy Bigfoots, he says the book he's working on — the one he posted the cover art for — is a legitimate study of people who believe in Bigfoot, and he didn't know there was such a thing as Bigfoot erotica," Jimmy Kimmel said on Tuesday's Kimmel Live. "I didn't know that, either. But I looked it up — turns out, there is."
"Yes, Bigfoot porn," Stephen Colbert said on The Late Show. "Now we know why all the photos of Bigfoot are blurred. But Riggleman says there's a perfectly good explanation for him openly posting his homemade Bigfoot erotica: He said the posts were a joke from his military buddies. Wait — you think that makes it sound better? 'We're just doing what all military buddies do, we're posting cryptozoological erotica in the middle of a congressional race. Hoo-rah!'" Still, Riggleman's clearly feeling the heat, because he just deleted a Facebook author page promoting his self-published book on Bigfoot sex.
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