FOURTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE REPUBLIC) 
OF THE PHILIPPINES 
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First Regular Session 
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SENATE 
S.No. 1758 
Introduced by Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
The commercial use of telephones for providing phone-sex services has become a reality 
with the introduction of so-called party phones. In United States, phone-sex services are 
euphemistically referred to as “dial-a-porn” service providers. And in the US. such services- 
providers constitute a highly accessible but expensive medium of transmitting (or “accessing” for 
callers) lewd, lascivious, filthy or indecent messages. 
There is no law in our country that punishes those who offer phone-sex services. We 
need this law to prevent the proliferation of phone-sex services, which do not only corrupt public 
morals, but also place an inordinate economic burden on the consumer because of their “pay per 
call arrangements.* 
* This bill was originally filed during the Thirteenth Congress, First Regular Session. 


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Introduced by Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago 
AN ACT 
DECLARING UNLAWFUL THE COMMERCIAL USE OF TELEPHONES FOR MAKING 
INDECENT OR OBSCENE COMMUNICATIONS AND PROVIDING 
PENALTIES THEREFOR 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress 
assembled: 
SECTION 1. Short Title. - This Act shall be known as the “Anti Dial-a-Porn Act of 
2007.” 
SECTION 2. Declaration of Policy. - It is hereby declared a State policy to discourage 
the commercial use of telephone or other telecommunication facilities for the circulation, 
distribution, conveyance or transmission of lewd, lascivious, filthy, or indecent messages that 
tend to corrupt the moral of the public and would suggest to the mind of either sex thoughts of an 
impure or libidinous character, regardless of the actual effect thereof on the recipients’ mind. 
SECTION 3. 
(A) “Lewd message” means dissolute or unchaste acts, scenes, or incidents, or one 
whose utterance is calculated to excite lustful and sensual desires and the like. 
Dejinition of Terms. - For the purposes o f  the Act, the term: 
(B) “Lascivious message” means any message that is impure, unclean, indecent, foul, 
filthy or disgusting. 
(C) “Indecent” mean immodest or impure. 
(D) “Filthy” means nasty, vulgar, indecent, and offensive to the moral sense. 
(E) “Phone-sex business” means offering sexually intimate, suggestive, or explicit 
conversations to callers on a pay-per-call basis. 
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(F) “Pay-per-call services” means any service for which the caller pays a per-call or 
per-time-interval charge that is greater than, or in addition to, the charge for the 
transmission of the call. 
SECTION 4. Prohibited Acts. -Pursuant to the policy laid down in Section 2 above, it is 
hereby declared unlawful: 
(A) For a person, natural or juridical, association, club or any other entity to: 
(1) Establish, provide, or carry on a phone-sex business or similar activity that 
has for its purpose the transmission, conveyance, or distribution for profit of 
lewd, indecent, or lascivious messages through the telephone or other 
telecommunication facilities. 
(2) 
Advertise, publish, print, or distribute or cause the advertisement, 
publication, printing or distribution of any brochure, flyer, or any 
propaganda material calculated to promote the prohibited acts in the 
preceding sub-paragraph. 
Solicit, enlist or in any manner attract or induce any man or woman to 
become a member in any club or association whose objective is to promote, 
provide, or carry on the prohibited acts in subparagraph (1) of this Section. 
(3) 
(B) For the manager or office-in charge of advertising manager of any newspaper, 
magazine, television or radio station, or other media or mass communication like telephone or 
telegraph companies, or of an advertising agency, printing company or similar entities, to 
knowingly allow or consent to the acts mentioned in paragraph (A) of this Section. 
SECTION 5. Penalties. - Any person found guilty of any of the offense covered by this 
Act shall be punished by imprisonment of not less than six (6) years and one (1) day but not 
more than eight (8) years, or a fine ranging from Ten Thousand Pesos (Pl0,000.00) to Twenty 
Thousand Pesos (P 20,000.00), or both such imprisonment and fine, in the discretion of the 
court: Provided, that if the offender is a foreigner, he shall be immediately deported and barred 
forever form entering the country after serving his sentence and paying the fine. 
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SECTION 6. Separability Clause. - If any provision or part hereof, is held invalid or 
unconstitutional, the remainder of the law or provision not otherwise affected shall remain valid 
and subsisting. 
SECTION 7. Repealing Clause. - Any law, presidential decree or issuance, executive 
order, letter of instruction, administrative order, rule or regulation contrary to or inconsistent 
with the provision of this Act is hereby repealed, modified or amended accordingly. 
SECTION 8. Effectivity Clause. - This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its 
publication in at least two (2) newspapers of general circulation. 
Approved, 
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