Pia on Porn

From the office of Sen. Pia Cayetano comes this statement regarding the whole brouhaha about sex, lies and videotapes:

Senator Cayetano appealed to the public to refrain from
downloading, watching, sharing or purchasing electronic files and CD
copies of the controversial sex videos of Dr. Hayden Kho with several
celebrities that are circulating on the Internet and mobile
phones, and sold openly or covertly in pirated video stores.

Instead of further fanning the controversy, Cayetano urged the
media to help focus public attention to proposed solutions seeking to
deter and outlaw video voyeurism, and help raise people’s awareness on
women’s rights and privacy issues.

She is the principal author of Senate Bill No. 3267, the proposed
Anti-Video Voyeurism Act of 2009.,

“By watching and spreading these materials to others, we are
not helping address the problem but are in fact contributing
to it,” Cayetano, who is chair of the Senate committee on
social justice, said

“Bear in mind that the women victims are violated all over every time these videos are played and made a spectacle in our computers and mobile phones, or in our homes and places of work,” she added. “Do your part, don’t watch these videos. Otherwise we, in effect, become victimizers ourselves like Dr. Kho and his ilk.”

She has refrained from watching the videos and has encouraged her staff and friends to do the same as a way of showing respect, not only to the victims, but for all women in general.

A prolific blogger, she posted an entry on her blog, www.mydailyrace.com tackling the basic rights of women in light of the controversy created by the sex scandal videos.

In her May 23 blog entry, Cayetano listed the various forms of violence and remedies available to victims under Republic Act 9262, also known as the Anti-violence against Women and Children Act of 2004.

“This scandal is ugly and unfortunate, but it also opens our eyes as to how some people would shamelessly go to extreme measures of humiliating a woman and violating her rights with the use of modern technology and the internet.”

“We should focus on the unlawful act and not the content of the video. We trivialize the damage done to those women by watching these videos.”

She advised those who have already downloaded the sex scandal videos from file sharing sites to voluntary delete the same from their hard disks and mobile phones.