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FIFTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES 
First Regular Session 
SENATE 
S~nate Bill No. 1284 
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INTRODUCE;D BY HON. MANNY VILLAR 
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. 


FIFTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES 
First Regular Session 
SENATE 
Senate Bill No. _1_2_8 4 
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INTRODUCED BY HON. MANNY VILLAR 
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. 
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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: 
b) 
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. 
d) 
To solicit, enlist or il') any manner attract or induce ay man 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. 
e) 
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 a (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 1 day but not 
more than 8 years, or a fine ranging from ten to twenty thousand pesos, or both such 
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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. 
Sec. 6. 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. 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 the Act is hereby repealed, modified, or amended 
accordingly. 
Sec. 8. Effectivity Clause. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its 
publication in at least 2 newspapers of general circulation. 
Approved, 
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