At least according to Diane Dimond at the Daily Beast. This alleged John Edwards/Rielle Hunter sex tape sounds less and less alleged all the time. WARNING: PREGNANT SEX AHEAD.

The Daily Beast can now describe the video in detail, based on accounts from multiple people who have viewed it. One source who has a medical background and has worked with pregnant patients says Hunter appears four or five months pregnant based on the swollen state of her belly and nipples. This would would place the tape’s filming somewhere around September or October of 2007, smack in the middle of Edwards campaign for the presidency.

On the video, both participants are naked. Hunter is propped up against the hotel bed headboard, with John Edwards belly-down on the bed between her legs. As Hunter, the campaign’s official videographer, holds the camera, a smiling Edwards performs oral sex. Because of the camera angle, Hunter’s face is not visible, but her distinctive jewelry is. Not only does candidate Edwards know he’s being filmed, one source says, he’s also clowning around and “graphically performing for the camera.”

Wow. I’ve heard of politicians kissing babies, but usually not until they’re born!

Rumors of this tape have been floating around for at least a year, but most people assumed Edwards couldn’t be stupid and arrogant and crazy enough to allow something like this to exist. He could’ve been Vice President. He could’ve been President of the United States. The hanky-panky behind the back of his cancer-stricken wife is bad enough, but taping it? What a dolt! And we’re supposed to be worried about Palin?

Is there any particular reason, besides visceral disgust among journalists, why the National Enquirer shouldn’t get a Pulitzer for this story?

Other tidbits:

• According to Elizabeth Edwards in an e-mail to former sidekick Andrew Young, in which she threatens a lawsuit, “she’s never been near death and will certainly live to see the end of the threatened litigation.”
• Young claims that John once told him, “Oh, you know, Andrew, the voters don’t care about politician’s affairs. If this ever gets out, it will be a one-day story.” Whoops!
• Young’s got more incriminating material, including “eight photographs, the video sex tape, copies of the tape, a Hunter document entitled ‘The Slut Club,’ and other items.” Who doesn’t want to read “The Slut Club”? As you may know, Hunter inspired the Alison Poole character in several works by Jay McInerney and Bret Easton Ellis. Is this a firsthand account? The title seems like kind of a giveaway.

And I’ve lost track of all the lawsuits they’re filing against each other. I think John Edwards is actually suing himself just to be sure.

P.S. Not creeped out enough yet? This’ll fix it.
P.P.S. “Repulsive.”