Iowa lawmaker (R-Obviously) caught reading Sex After Sixty on House floor

Republican Iowa state Rep. Ross Paustian was caught reading a sexual self-help book during a House session in the Iowa state legislature, reported ABC News.

Brianne Pfannenstiel, reporter with The Des Moines Register, snapped a picture of Paustian and posted it to Twitter.

The photo went viral, of course. Paustian received some backlash after the photo surfaced because many felt that he rudely disengaged from the debate that was taking place at the time.

“I’m getting a lot of pretty vicious emails from people, so I have to explain,” Paustian told KCRG. “The main thing is I was totally engaged in what was going on on the floor . . . I knew what was going on. I knew how we were going to vote on amendments. So it wasn’t like I wasn’t paying attention to what was going on.”