And Speaker of the Legislature Galen Hadley said he was leaning toward supporting Kintner's expulsion from office and that the situation should be dealt with this year — possibly through a special legislative session.

"This puts his fellow senators in an exceedingly difficult position," Hadley said.

News of Kintner's online issues first emerged last week, a year after the woman he met on Facebook convinced him to masturbate into a webcam using the computer program Skype while she did the same. The two also swapped sexually explicit messages, hers apparently translated from another language.

"Make me pleasure," she says at one point, according to transcripts compiled by the Nebraska State Patrol.

But Kintner is conflicted: "I don't want to sneak behind my wife's back," he tells her. "It's not about you, it is about me. You are smoking hot."

The woman, who used the name Vinciane Diedeort, continues pressing Kintner to remove his clothing.

"Let's end this, before I get in trouble," he responds, then stops the call around 5 p.m. July 30.