The Sex Scandal Continues….

        The  sex drama online between Ms. Katrina and Mr. Kho had spilled over the Senate floor and everyone got wet,  literally and figuratively.   The august chamber on cue from Senator Jamby Madrigal,  Committee Chairman on Youth, Women and Family Relations had summoned, on suggestion from Senator Bong Revilla, another movie actor,  both artists in the sex video to  bare it  all, entertain the public and to enlighten the distinguished lawmakers  so they can craft a  piece of legislation to address sex videos proliferating online involving our young adults as well as not too young adults.  It is indicative enough that the Senate has the fortitude and the resolve to address this one vexing issue of pornography online,  though hours earlier, the same body was at a loss on how  to interpret its ethics rule against one of its member Manny Villar, and would defer to the High Tribunal for guidance.  Proficiency in math seems to plague this chamber too  that it is likely to ask the same tribunal to determine what constitutes ¾ of the chamber to call for Con-Ass, though in the latter, it is losing steam as of now.  Imagine children in gridlock over whose turn it is to wash the dishes and whose turn to play the video games that they have to ask their parents to settle the matter.   The only difference is that our lawmakers were no longer immature children, though temperamentally they could still be.

That this august chamber is deficient on something else does not argue against its capacity to fashion a piece of legislation that will address the issue of “voyeurism” or “pornography” online.  There seems to be, in this regards, a unanimous perception that the Senate can handle this “sex” investigation in aid of legislation or in aid of its basal interest for raw and prurient desire to look at the “perpetrators” up close and personal.

Let us leave the Senate for a while and look for some substance.

If  adults had engaged in some kind of indiscretion, our reflex reaction is to find out if it was consensual on their part.   If  this encounter was captured digitally frame by frame, our instinctive  reaction is to ask if both knew of the capture.  If yes on both, we tend to brush everything aside and take a hike.  If there is no public interest that is involved, we can sleep tight at night.   But how about if this indiscretion was done in an awfully tasteless manner and the entire episode becomes an overnight sensation online as to provoke someone to cry in anger:  “masyado akong nababoy”.  Now we can see some public outrage, though mistaken and misplaced in part because it was snowballed by the TV-network and the movie industry that had packaged Ms. Katrina both as a sex symbol and a heroine out to save mankind.   If Ms. Katrina was advertised as a sex symbol, what is so wrong with her being seen performing  an act that she was packaged to deliver?   Was it because her director was a doctor and  she was unaware of the camera rolling? Was the outrage lies in part because she was not able to deliver her best worthy of a FAMAS title as she was unaware of the camera rolling?  Or was it because it was a one-sided portrayal of her as a  sex symbol and it was not balanced by her selfless  heroine character?

The perplexing personality of Ms. Katrina is only matched by his partner who now claims that his deviant behavior was a result of a childhood trauma. What childhood trauma?  He seemed to be upbeat and in high spirit sojourning with his girlfriend, Ms. Belo in another escapade in Singapore until the sex video with Ms. Halili had appeared online.  He did not appear to be suffering from any trauma before the video scandal. 

 The negative reactions from the public was fueled chiefly by GMA-7,  Ms. Halili’s employer, whose daily variety show features scantily clad young girls gyrating before TV cameras beamed throughout the country and other parts of the world, which announced that it was standing behind her highly-prized sex kitten, Ms. Katrina.  The entire movie industry had rallied behind her as well.

 Dr. Kho was overwhelmed by the negative reactions from the public about this video clip that he hired a lawyer to fight tooth and nail for his right over this video which he claimed was released without his permission.  He appeared on TV contrite though for  his behavior only after his doting mother had made a similar appearance earlier that turned out to be a complete disaster. 

The public are being entertained with the cheap kind of circus where one is  being portrayed as virtuous and another as a villain.  Her virtue centers around her being unaware of the camera rolling while doing sex act;  and his villainous act, that  of taping the sexual congress and releasing it thereafter.  We seem to wallow in the idea that had she been aware of the camera rolling and did not consent to it, it will cement a character in her  person which in the first place was not there.  For proper perspective though, the public should see them both as villains.

To illustrate this point,  let us put another face instead that of Ms. Katrina’s doing sex with Mr. Kho.  This other face is not also engaged to be married with Mr. Kho  either because he has his own girl Ms. Belo.  We have no problem conjuring up an image of what the local wags would call “Pok-Pok” but in the case of Ms. Katrina, we conveniently put a face of a “victim of injustice”.

In the case of Mr. Kho, the public can easily read  perversion from every copy of  sexual video he has with his partners to catalogue his  conquest and to make money in them in the future.

If you sympathize with either, then we have our priorities wrong and our morality totally upside down.  This could be the reason why we can only achieve so much as a nation.

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Katrina, Hayden In Pari Delicto!

                                                   

                Katrina and Hayden were in bed sharing their tryst with no matrimonial bond but despite this, Katrina’s employer GMA-7,  was behind its  “shining  star” and so was the entire movie industry which tried to ram through the throat of the  public a misleading one liner that: “Katrina was the victim”.   

          She was not a victim, though both of them were abusers and the unwitting public, their victims.  Katrina to some, is a heroine of the telenovela, Gagambino who fought evil to save mankind.  She had victimized the public into believing that her persona  is virtuously  wholesome, sensually of course it is.   Dr. Kho is  a physician with some kinky habit of taping his every sexual encounter with his partners.  His previous talent manager,  Ms. Solis admits this in a television interview.    He had victimized the public into looking at him as a physician and not as a pervert.

        Katrina models see through lingerie and skimpy bikinis and when you go on ramp to sell these products, the model becomes the most desirable product,  the “band-aid” size bikini she wears is nowhere within the index of any consumer’s  preference.  If she advertises that much she could also sell.  Was the tryst with Hayden an acceptance of the product she was selling and the secret tape,  Hayden’s business concept of cashing on in an investment?   

       Was she wronged because her consent was absent on the taping though the sexual liaison was consensual?

        Indeed , she was robbed of her privacy.  But would  she be appeased with the other “disgorging” the profit of the sex videos in her favor or does  she desire more?  If all these brouhaha are geared towards making the other scoundrel pay-up for the “tarnished image” and “privacy violation”  of the “victim”, then the settlement along these gridlines becomes private affair and the public had been had once again.

       They were both in pari delicto and no one should be allowed to profit from each other.

        Public appeasement will only come if Mr. Kho is stripped off of his license as a physician being a purveyor of porn and Ms. Halili is sanctioned for her “indecorous” behavior by the very people behind her.  But her employer, as aptly observed by DJB,  has a daily variety show of scantily clad young girls gyrating in front of television cameras beamed throughout the country  and certain parts of the world.  This variety show could be the very backbone of its rating and therefore its huge source of income.  The paradox is, the more Katrinas  they have, the more the money and the fun.

       Let us wait and see how this scenario pans out in the next few days.  But the prediction of  DJB  entitled Live by Pudenda, Die by Pudenda  below only confirms that the public  will again be the helpless victims.

      “What Hayden Kho and Katrina Halili are suffering now is merely the consequence of that tragically false presumption. We owe them pity, but that is all. I don’t see why either of them should be held up as examples of causes worth fighting for. I’m cold to them both and am willing to predict that  Katrina Halili and Hayden Kho, and those behind, in front, under and over them both will all soon realize they ought  to just patch this all up quietly and continue in the business of making money by selling made up flesh doctored and dolled up for ramp, runway and studio.  The alternative of course is an escalating war of dueling videos,  in which videos of other famous people doing it could hit the World Wide Web”.

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Katrina Halili, God and the Church

        Ms. Katrina H. represents our today’s  confused or embattled generation.  In a telenovela, Gagambino with Dennis Trillo,  she was one of the heroines who battled the forces of evil  (Ms. Jean Garcia and one Harold) so she and others can save mankind from extinction, but in another dimension,  you saw her modeling see-through lingerie and skimpy bikinis on the ramp or posed in still lurid and alluring photos of flesh.

        In the first, she serves as role model for our young people to do what is good and resist everything evil yet  in another dimension you saw her sensual curvatures and contours sufficient to soak up one’s nocturnal fantasies.  Your vision of her in this dimension could lead you to an honest perception that if she  advertises that much, she could sell as much.  Did she sell this time around?  Or it was purely for fun?

        The young generation is lost on Katrina H.  She is a heroine who fights evil but she could  be the epitome of the very same forces that she was battling against.

       The Church was right all  along in its position that those pills and other contraception which the government had tried to sell to the public to address population problem could backfire and lead people astray towards promiscuity.   Ms. Katrina H and Mr. Kho,  and others could engage in this voyeuristic activity in a one-nightstand unfettered by the responsibility that traditional couple would assume when they engaged in this kind of intimacy. That they engaged in it for fun,  is entirely different from those who engaged in it as an expression of the oneness of their souls. They look at is as the primeval expression of basal instinct for flesh and sex,  while ideally, people should only engage   in it because they are in love with each other.  This is the Church’s  line which unfortunately, many have considered this to be primeval too.

       But Mr. Kho, who presumably had taped this lustful encounter with Ms. Katrina H. and leaked it to the media thereafter, should have taken clinical psychology first before cosmetic medicine so he could have his head examined before he is even allowed examine another person’s anatomy to perfect it.  And from where I sit,  Mr. Kho has the propensity of examining  a person’s anatomy which is already perfect and flawless and therefore does not need his expert intervention.  Apparently, the intervention was of different dimension using a probing scalpel that was  never sanctioned before by the medical board.   He is embroiled now in a “medical malpractice” .

       All these talks about sanctions and passage of a cyber-law to address privacy violation and pornography in the internet while laudable and appropriate,  had missed one larger issue:  We cannot legislate an acceptable standard of morality in our populace.  We have to instill that morality and virtues to our children direct from our homes and ask our children to emulate persons whom they know personally to be upright and virtuous  and not to emulate those movie personalities whose “virtues” were packaged commercially by media using flesh and skin as the basic framework.

      From my standpoint, we are losing our young generation because we have lost God in our own generation.
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