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Source: From a National Post artitcle by Bart Jackson [http://www.nationalpost.com/arts/story.html?id=2769704]

According to a recent article in the National Post, a Canadian journalist is claiming the existence of a sex tape between Sandra Bullock and soon-to-be-ex husband Jesse James. The content in the video is reported to consist of James dressed in Nazi regalia, sporting a Hitler mustache and yelling obscenities as he defouls “America’s Sweetheart”. The article goes on to assume that James will attempt to use this video as a way of bargaining with Bullock when and if divorce papers are filed.

This is not the first time that a celebrity breakup has revealed the existence that our most beloved public figures actually have sex. Between Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee, or Paris Hilton and whatever that other guys name was, sex tapes are made and almost immediately destined to be consumed by the public. In the previous examples, those tapes actually helped the actresses careers. Paris Hilton was destined to be just another hotel heiress socialite until the grainy, green-and-white video made it’s way to the internet. Now it’s almost like the public can’t get rid of her.

Bullock, on the other hand, does not stand to gain much of anything from the release of such a tape. She already has a bright career, with several movies being released in 2009 and an Oscar under her belt. She is, as has been stated, “America’s Sweetheart”. A sex tape, if it has any effect at all, would have disastrous consequences for her career.

Although issues of privacy are at play here (we really should not care that Bullock likes to get freaky every now and then), we are still largely guided by a moral compass that discourages those we consider to be “nice” from doing anything we consider to be “naughty”. We expect figures like Pamela Anderson to do freaky things for her husbands. This is a woman who figured prominently in Playboy Magazine and was the subject of many fantasies while starring on Baywatch. The public would have been disappointed if it had turned out there was no sex tape with Anderson in it.

It is this moral compass that is going to have the world obsessed with this story. When allegations of James infidelity first surfaced, we all thought “Oh, poor Bullock”. Now, as we are pondering the existence of Nazi role play porn with Bullock and James, things are about to get ugly.

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