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Introduced by Senator LUISA ‘‘LOI” P. EJERCITQ ESTRADA 
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 the United States, phone-sex 
services are euphemistically referred to as “dial-a-porn” service-providers. 
And in the 
U. S. such service-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 not only corrupt 
public morals, but also place an inordinate economic burden on the consumer because of 
their “pay per call” arrangements. 
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Considering the foregoing reasons, the immediate passage of this bill is earnestly 
sought. 
CITO ESTRADA 
Senator 


THTRTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE REPUBLIC ) 
OF THE PHILIPPINES 
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First Regular Session 
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SENATE” 
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S.B. NO. 
Introduced bv Senator LUISA “LOI” P. EJERCITO ESTRADA 
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 the House of Representatives of the Philippines in 
Congress assem bled: 
SECTION 1. Short Title. - This shall be known as the “Anti Dial-a-Porn Act.” 
SEC. 2. 
Declaration of State Policy. - It is hereby declared a state policy to 
discourage the commercial use of telephones or other telecommunication facilities for the 
circulation, distribution, conveyance or transmission of lewd, lascivious, filthy or indecent 
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messages that tend to corrupt the morals of the public and would suggest to the minds of 
either sex thoughts of an impure or libidinous character, regardless of the actual effect 
thereof on the recipients’ minds. 
SEC. 3. Definition of Terms. As used in this Act. 
(a) A “lewd” message is one that describes dissolute or unchaste acts, scenes or 
incidents or one whose utterance is calculated to excite lustkl and sensual 
desires and the like; 
(b) The word “lascivious” comprehends any message that is impure, unclean, 
indecent, fool, filthy or disgusting; 
(c) The term “indecent” means immodest or impure; 


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(d) The term “filthy” means nasty, vulgar, indecent, 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. 
(f) The term “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 transmission of the call. 
SEC. 4. Prohibited Acts.- Pursuant to the policy laid down in Sec. 2 above, it is 
hereby declared unlawful: 
(a) for a person, natural or juridical, association, club or any other entity to: 
(i) 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; 
(ii) to 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; 
(iii)to solicit, enlist 01: 
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 sub-paragraph (i) of this Section. 
(b) for the manager or officer-in-charge or advertising manager of any newspaper, 
magazine, television or radio station or other media of 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 sub-paragraph (ii) of this Section. 


SEC 5 Penalties. - Any person found guilty of any of the offenses 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 fkom ten (10) to twenty thouqand, 
pesos (P20,000.00), or both, upon the discretion of the court: Provided, That if the 
offended is a foreigner, he shall be immediately deported and barred forever from 
entering the country after serving his sentence and paying the fine. 
SEC. 6. Separability Clause. - If any provision, or part hereof, is held invalid or 
unconstitutional, the remainder of the law or the provision not otherwise affected shall 
remain valid and subsisting. 
SEC. 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 provisions of this Act is hereby repealed modified or amended 
accordingly. 
SEC.8. Effectivity Clause. - This Act shall take effect fifteen (1 5) days after its 
publication in at least two (2) newspapers of general circulation. 
Approved,