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THIRTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES 
First Regular Session 
75 
S. No. 
INTRODUCED BY WON. MANUEL B. VILLAR, JR. 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
The commercial use of telephones for providing plione-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 liiglily 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. 


THIRTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES 
First Regular Session 
SENATE 
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INTRODUCED BY HON. MANUEL B. VILLAR, JR. 
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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 shall be known as the “Anti-Dial-a-Porn Act.” 
Section 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 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, scene, or one 
whose utterance is calculated to excite lustful and sensual desires and the like. 
b. The word “lascivious” comprehends any message that is impure, unclean, 
indecent, foul, filthy or disgusting. 
c. The term “indecent” means immodest or impure. 
d. The term “filthy” means nasty, vulgar, indecent, offensive to the moral sense 
morally. 
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) 
b) 
for a person, natural or juridical, association, club or any other entity to: 
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. 
c) 
To advertise, publish, print, or distribute or cause the advertisement, 
publication, printing or distribution of any brochure, flyer, or ay propaganda 
material calculated to promote the prohibited acts in the preceding sub- 
paragraph. 
To solicit, enlist or in any maimer attract or induce ay mail or woman to become 
a member in ay club or association whose objective is to promote, provide, or 
carry on the prohibited acts in sub-paragraph (i) of this Section. 
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 ltnowingly allow or consent to the acts 
mentioned in sub-paragraph a (ii) of this Section. 
d) 
e) 
Sec. 6. 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 1 day but not more than 8 
years, or a fine ranging from ten to twenty thousand pesos, 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 from entering the country after serving his sentence and paying the 
fine. 


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Sec. 7. Separability Clause. If any provision or part of this Act is held invalid or 
unconstitutional, the remainder of the law or the provision not otherwise affected shall valid and 
subsisting. 
Sec. 8. Repeating 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 the Act is hereby repealed, modified, or amended accordingly. 
Sec. 9. 
Effectivity Clause. 
This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its 
publication in at least 2 newspapers of general circulation. 
Approved,