Lena Dunham: GOP Senate could affect your sex life

Actress Lena Dunham is urging fans to vote Democratic this November with a warning that Republican Senate candidates like Rep. Cory Gardner (Colo.) and North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis could affect their sex lives. 

The creator and star of HBO’s Girls name-checked two other GOP candidates — Alaska’s Dan Sullivan and Iowa’s Joni Ernst — in an email Thursday to Planned Parenthood Action Fund supporters. 

{mosads}”I vote because the number of backwards, out-of-touch, downright freaking unbelievably anti-women’s health politicians out there right now makes my blood boil,” Dunham wrote. 

“The crazy and depressing truth is that there are people running for office right now who could actually affect your life. PARTICULARLY your sex life. PARTICULARLY if you’re a woman.” 

The email is Dunham’s first political message of the 2014 cycle on behalf of Planned Parenthood’s political arm. In 2012, she made waves for cutting a TV ad for President Obama that described her vote as “my first time.” 

“The first time shouldn’t be with just anybody. You want to do it with a great guy,” Dunham told the camera. “Someone who really cares about and understands women.”

Thursday’s email referred to GOP candidates’ positions on the Hobby Lobby decision, ObamaCare, the minimum wage and the Violence Against Women Act.