“More than 200,000 Filipinos — women, men and possibly children — are offering sex via the Internet, Catanduanes Rep. Joseph Santiago revealed yesterday. He said the website www.adultfriendfinder.com claims to have a list of 212,257 potential online sexual partners from the Philippines… He said based on the www.adultfriendfinder.com site, ‘the Philippines now has the world’s 15th largest list of possible sexual partners on the Internet. We find this surprising considering that outside the office, very few Filipinos have ready access to personal computers with an Internet connection,’ he said. ‘This only suggests that a number of Internet shops may be fronting for cyber sex operations and there are many gangs here running clandestine cyber sex dens,’ he added. ‘We are gravely worried that going forward, as the country’s Internet users increase, illicit cyber sex activities will also proliferate. Cyber sex operators corrupt and prostitute our women and children. They should be dealt with severely,’ he said.” —Philippine Headline News Online (Philippines)

By way of disclaimer, PervScan should mention that it does have an affiliate relationship with AdultFriendFinder. That being said, however, you get the sense that this is the one of those pseudo-issues that politicians love to drum up now and then. Probably he was cruising for casual sex himself and happened to note that there were so many “pinoys” or filipinos on AdultFriendFinder. Why not raise a hue and a cry, he must have thought, about the way the internet is corrupting the local morals? It’s always a safe way to polish an image or garner a few votes. After all, who would publicly admit that they want to see the local morals corrupted?

Once you consider the matter, it shouldn’t be all that suprising that the Philippines has the world’s fifteenth largest list of cybersex partners. In the first place, it’s the twelfth most populous country in the world, so there are plenty of people to offer themselves online. In the second place, sex is already big business in the Philippines. It has long been known as one of the “established sex tourist destinations.” In the third place, internet usage is exploding in the Philippines, just as it is in other parts of the world. According to a report written a few years ago, “the Internet has become more accessible through schools, offices, libraries and Internet cafes… A proliferation of Internet prepaid cards means access costs are lower compared to monthly subscriptions… ‘The internet market is growing slowly but surely in the Philippines, and given our population potential, the Philippine internet user may become a very important part of the internet economy…’” And that “internet economy” doubtless involves lots of sex.

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