FIFTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE REPUBLIC 
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First Regular Session 
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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 U.S. 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 
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AN ACT 
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DECLARING UNLAWFUL THE COMMERCIAL USE OF TELEPHONES FOR MAKING 
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INDECENT OR OBSCENE COMMUNICATIONS AND PROVIDING 
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PENALTIES THEREFOR 
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Be it ~nacted 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-Pom Act." 
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SECTION 2. Declaration of Policy. - It is hereby declared a State policy to discourage 
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the commercial use of telephone or other telecommunication facilities for the circulation, 
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distribution, conveyance or transmission of lewd, lascivious, filthy, or indecent messages that 
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tend to corrupt the moral of the public and would suggest to the mind of either sex thoughts of an 
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impure or libidinous character, regardless of the actual effect thereof on the recipients' mind. 
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SECTION 3. Definition of Terms. - For the purposes 0 fthe Act, the term: 
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(A) "Lewd message" means dissolute or unchaste acts, scenes, or incidents, or one whose 
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utterance is calculated to excite lustful and sensual desires and the like. 
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(B) "Lascivious message" means any message that is impure, unclean, indecent, foul, 
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filthy or disgusting. 
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(C) "Indecent" mean immodest or impure. 
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(D) "Filthy" means nasty, vulgar, indecent, and offensive to the moral sense. 
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(E) "Phone-sex business" means offering sexually intimate, suggestive, or explicit 
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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. 
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SECTION 4. Prohibited Acts. -Pursuant to the policy laid down in Section 2 above, it is 
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hereby declared unlawful: 
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(A) For a person, natural or juridical, association, club or any other entity to: 
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(1) Establish, provide, or carryon a phone-sex business or similar activity that has 
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for its purpose the transmission, conveyance, or distribution for profit of lewd, indecent, 
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or lascivious messages through the telephone or other telecommunication facilities. 
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(2) Advertise, publish, print, or distribute or cause the advertisement, publication, 
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printing or distribution of any brochure, flyer, or any propaganda material calculated to 
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promote the prohibited acts in the preceding sub-paragraph. 
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(3) Solicit, enlist or in any manner attract or induce any man or woman to become 
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a member in any club or association whose objective is to promote, provide, or carryon 
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the prohibited acts in subparagraph (1) ofthis Section. 
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(B) For the manager or office-in charge of advertising manager of any newspaper, 
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magazine, television or radio station, or other media or mass communication like telephone or 
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telegraph 'companies, or of an advertising agency, printing company or similar entities, to 
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knowingly allow or consent to the acts mentioned in paragraph (A) of this Section. 
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SECTION 5. Penalties. - Any person found guilty of any of the offense covered by this 
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Act shall be punished by imprisonment of not less than six (6) years and one (1) day but not 
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more than eight (8) years, or a fine ranging from Ten Thousand Pesos (PlO,OOO.OO) to Twenty 
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Thousand Pesos (P 20,000.00), or both such imprisonment and fine, in the discretion of the 
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court: Provided, that if the offender is a foreigner, he shall be immediately deported and barred 
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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 
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unconstitutional, the remainder of the law or provision not otherwise affected shall remain valid 
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and subsisting. 
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SECTION 7. Repealing Clause. - Any law, presidential decree or issuance, executive 
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order, letter of instruction, administrative order, rule or regulation contrary to or inconsistent 
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with the provision of this Act is hereby repealed, modified or amended accordingly. 
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SECTION 8. Effectivity Clause. - This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its 
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publication in at least two (2) newspapers of general circulation. 
Approved, 
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