A senior aide to a US Republican politician has resigned after his P0*n star ex-girlfriend tweeted at least one picture of his private partia as revenge for breaking up with her.
Adam Kuhn, chief-of-staff to Ohio congressman Steve Stivers, quit after his former lover Jennifer "Ruby" Roubenes Allbaugh, posted "at least one photo" of Mr Kuhn's man-hood to Mr Stivers' Twitter account over the past week.
In a statement to the press, Mr Kuhn said he was the victim of an attack by a woman with whom he had a personal relationship.
"I realise and apologise that I had used poor judgment in my personal life regarding this relationship," he said.
"The woman who posted this has reached out to me to apologise."
Mr Stivers appears to have accepted the resignation of his long-term adviser without so much as a "goodbye and good luck", despite the fact Mr Kuhn was a loyal employee for six years and did nothing illegal; Ms Allbaugh is married but Mr Kuhn is single.
While Mr Kuhn has received a significant amount of support from social media users and within online forums. Many say he got what he morally deserved.
Ms Allbaugh told Washington newspaper POLITICO, which broke the story, that she tweeted the photos "to teach the pompous a..hole a lesson" after he ended their affair.
"I hate you, AJK, you selfish pompous a…hole," Ms Allbaugh tweeted on June 21 (Mr Kuhn's middle name is Joshua).
"Now we're even."
Describing herself as "a disgruntled former girlfriend", Ms Allbaugh told POLITICO she was sorry for the stunt and claimed she was in love with Mr Kuhn and her husband at the same time.
"I was trying to make him hate me, I guess," she said.
Gawker reported that Ms Allbaugh deleted her Twitter account, "The P0*nstar Pundit", after Mr Kuhn secured a cease-and-desist order against her.
That may be as far as he can take the matter; nine US states have introduced legislation against revenge P0*n but Ohio is not one of them.
A spokeswoman for Mr Stivers, Courtney Whetstone, said the congressman had accepted Mr Kuhn's resignation and would not comment on his personal life. [AAP]
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