Hayden Camera: Setting Porn Free

Okay, so now I’ll be joining the media hype. Let’s ride on with Hayden Kho’s newfound popularity as a porn star/macho dancer/videoke master.

Today I heard that Councilor Nanette Costelo-Daza of Quezon City will be filing charges against Dr. Hayden Kho due to his sex video which is a “clear representation of violence against women’s rights and gender equality.” In his videos, the doctor/celebrity/ex-beau of celebrated plastic surgeon Dr. Vicki Belo was captured having sex with well-known women, such as actress Katrina Halili, model Maricar Reyes, and another model who hails from Brazil.

Since the videos involved well known people the media swarmed on it like flies on street pizza, making a big issue regarding Kho’s credibility, and packaged the female subjects as victims of his machismo. But are they really victims in this light?

In a site dedicated to the actress, Katrina Halili says she seeks justice because her woman’s rights were lambasted upon the spread of the video. In the news she says she is determined to have the person who spread the videos apprehended and hopefully stop the dissemination of the video in the internet, on CDs and DVDs.

Can’t the actress cut the crap out? First, wasn’t she aware that Kho was taking a video of their alleged Kama Sutra demonstration? Prior to the release of the actual sex video, there already is a video of her and Kho (dubbed as the “instructional dance video”) where they were dancing in front of the camera to the tune of George Michael’s “Careless Whisper,” wearing only underwear. She also has another clip where she was talking to Kho in front of the camera. Now she’s saying she seeks justice for being ripped off her woman’s rights. Hasn’t she realized that she already gave up her so-called “rights” by stealing another woman’s boyfriend? We all know that she and Kho had an affair while the doctor was still in a relationship with Dr. Belo.

On the video itself, we are fussing over it mainly because, as I’ve mentioned earlier, it involved well-known personalities. But what if it’s just like any other sex videos where unknown aspiring porn stars were involved? Then we wouldn’t have this issue, as it would just another sex video that seeks to help guys fulfill their vicarious thrills, and at the same time improve the Philippine porn business which earns around fifty million each year.

I do not understand why there would be charges against Kho, and only him (and his fraternity brother Erik Chua, who allegedly was the one who uploaded the videos over the internet). I think that Katrina Halili and Maricar Reyes should be charged as well, for violating their own women’s rights.

Civic groups, human rights organizations, and most of all, politicians, ride on with this issue mainly because the sex video apparently destroys the “moral values” of the Filipino society. But rather than filing charges to Kho and his minions, or bran the video as “blasphemous” or “immoral,” I think it is better to look at the video at a more educational, while at the same time liberating perspective.

The country is suffering from a fast moral decline and we know it. But the solution is not through apprehension or condemnation of those who exercise immorality. Rather, it is better to educate the people about sex and pornography not as forms of increasing one’s libido, but as creative ways in promoting procreation.

Sexual acts are seen as taboo by the public, but aren’t they the same ways in producing children? Then why be hypocrites in this issue? The act of procreation is celebrated through the movements done during the intercourse itself, and why should we deny ourselves of seeing that fact? While we brand sex as bad and immoral, then why do people do it in the first place? Hence, if the government, as well as the society who sees sex as dirty and illicit, then perhaps it’s time to promote artificial insemination instead. Now who would want that?

Statistics say that more crimes involving sex and malice is due to the increase of pornography and the decline of the society’s moral values. I say, it’s in the way the sex and pornography is interpreted. I think that today’s existing institutions can boost the society’s moral values back by using these materials, in a more educational viewpoint. By making people understand what sex and porn really are (sans the word immoral and taboo), then there would be no issue such as this would happen.

P.S. Katrina Halili, you packaged yourself as a sex symbol, and by that you should expect men violating your woman’s rights mainly because you want them to lust for you. I guess you have no right to ask for justice now that the sex video is released because after all, you asked for it.