Proposed Anti-pornography law
An Act Prohibiting Pornography In Public Places, Prescribing Penalties Therefore and Other Purposes.
Section 1. Short Title – This Act shall be known as the “Anti-Pornography Act.”
Section 2. Declaration of Policy – The State recognizes the sanctity of sexual intercourse to be a private affair between married couples. And also, the State has the duty to protect the private affairs of married couples in their creation of a family. Towards this end, the State shall:
a.) Protect the sanctity of sexual intercourse only to be known to married couples by prohibiting the distribution and presentation of any forms of pornographic material to the general public.
b.) Promote the interest of the general welfare of the society by keeping the acts of married couples only for themselves in order to preserve the good customs of the Filipino family.
Section 3. Definition of Terms – The terms to be addressed such as those of “Pornography” and “Explicit Sexual Activity” are those similar to Republic Act No. 9775 otherwise known as “ AN ACT DEFINING THE CRIME OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY, PRESCRIBING PENALTIES THEREFOR AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. “ This is quoted as a reference in order to avoid conflict between such acts.
a.) “Pornography" refers to any representation, whether visual, audio, or written combination thereof, by electronic, mechanical, digital, optical, magnetic or any other means, of Persons engaged or involved in real or simulated explicit sexual activities.
b.) "Explicit Sexual Activity" includes actual or simulated –
1. As to form :
(i.) Sexual intercourse or lascivious act including, but not limited to, contact involving genital to genital, oral to genital, anal to genital, or oral to anal, whether between persons of the same or opposite sex;
2. bestiality;
3. masturbation;
4. sadistic or masochistic abuse;
5. lascivious exhibition of the genitals, buttocks, breasts, pubic area and/or anus; or
6. use of any object or instrument for lascivious acts
c.) Public
Section 1. Short Title – This Act shall be known as the “Anti-Pornography Act.”
Section 2. Declaration of Policy – The State recognizes the sanctity of sexual intercourse to be a private affair between married couples. And also, the State has the duty to protect the private affairs of married couples in their creation of a family. Towards this end, the State shall:
a.) Protect the sanctity of sexual intercourse only to be known to married couples by prohibiting the distribution and presentation of any forms of pornographic material to the general public.
b.) Promote the interest of the general welfare of the society by keeping the acts of married couples only for themselves in order to preserve the good customs of the Filipino family.
Section 3. Definition of Terms – The terms to be addressed such as those of “Pornography” and “Explicit Sexual Activity” are those similar to Republic Act No. 9775 otherwise known as “ AN ACT DEFINING THE CRIME OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY, PRESCRIBING PENALTIES THEREFOR AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. “ This is quoted as a reference in order to avoid conflict between such acts.
a.) “Pornography" refers to any representation, whether visual, audio, or written combination thereof, by electronic, mechanical, digital, optical, magnetic or any other means, of Persons engaged or involved in real or simulated explicit sexual activities.
b.) "Explicit Sexual Activity" includes actual or simulated –
1. As to form :
(i.) Sexual intercourse or lascivious act including, but not limited to, contact involving genital to genital, oral to genital, anal to genital, or oral to anal, whether between persons of the same or opposite sex;
2. bestiality;
3. masturbation;
4. sadistic or masochistic abuse;
5. lascivious exhibition of the genitals, buttocks, breasts, pubic area and/or anus; or
6. use of any object or instrument for lascivious acts
c.) Public