Baguio execs, cops start ‘war’ against sex videos

By Aileen P. Refuerzo

BAGUIO CITY – The city government has started heightened campaign they called “war” against lewd video materials in the city.

The city council last week asked the city police and other concerned agencies here to implement penal provisions of the law banning display and sale of sex videos in the city.

The move initiated by Councilor Betty Lourdes Tabanda was an offshoot of the celebrated Hayden Kho-Katrina Halili sex video scandal which has resulted to enhanced operations against video piracy and pornographic video articles in Metro Manila as of late.

“With the onset of the digital age, the proliferation of videos and presentations/shows in the market poses a threat to the morality of the general public which include the youth and children,” Tabanda noted in the resolution approved by the city council.

Tabanda said the sex videos project women in general as “sex objects and degrades then thus dehumanize them.”

“The display and sale of sex videos in public places for commercial purposes is detrimental to the development of the young and destroys the very fiber of decent standards which the city propagates,” the resolution noted.

“Thus there is a need to immediately ban all these sex videos which exhibit lewd and obscene scenes that are unacceptable and against the moral teachings and doctrines.”

Tabanda said the law governing the display and sale of these pornographic articles contains a penal provision that can be implemented by lawmen.

The drive against lewd videos is in line with the provisions of the Local Government Code which authorizes local government units to implement measures to improve public morals.

She said this is also in line with the Gender Equality and Development Code which promotes programs and projects that are gender sensitive and gender fair.