THIRTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE REPUBLIC) 
OF THE PHLLIPPINES 
) 
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 out 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. 


THIRTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE REPUBLIC) 
OF THE PHILPPINES 
) 
First Regular Session 
) 
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S.B. sEN33%I 
No. 
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”. 
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 1 ewd, 1 ascivious, filthy, or i ndecent 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. , Dejnition of Terms. - As used in this Act: 
(1) A “lewd” message is one that describes dissolute or unchaste acts, scenes, or 
incidents, or one whose utterance is calculated to excite lustful and sensual desires and the like. 
(2) The word “lascivious” comprehends any message that is impure, unclean, 
indecent, foul, filthy or disgusting. 
(3) The term ‘‘indecent’,’ mean immodest or impure. 
(4) The term “filthy” means nasty, vulgar, indecent, and offensive to the moral 
sense 
(5) 
“Phone-sex” business means offering sexually intimate, suggestive, or 
explicit conversations to callers on a pay-per-call basis. 


erin “pay-per-call” services means any service for which the caller pays a 
time-interval charge that is greater than, or in addition to, the charge for the 
hereby 
SECTION 4. Prohibited Acts. - Pursuant to the policy laid down in Section 2 above, it is 
keclared unlawful: 
(1) For a person, natural or juridical, association, club or any other entity to: 
(a) 
Establish, provide, or carry on a “phone-sex” business or similar 
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 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. 


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 ofthis Act is hereby repealed, modified or amended accordingly. 
SECTION 8. Effectivity Clause. - This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days &er its 
publication in at least two (2) newspapers of general circulation. 
Approved. 
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