I'm not sure if this has been posted before. There's been some threads re the pending Revilla senate bill 1892 re banning all types of porn and porn-related activities in the Philippines. This bill by Santiago is targeted toward webcams. Notice the use of AFF statistics....
Article link:
http://www.newsflash.org/2004/02/hl/hl102571.htm
Excerpts:
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.
Among 35 countries in Asia, the Philippines has the second largest list of potential sex partners in
www.adultfriendfinder.com, next only to India, which has 677,812.
Outside Asia, the countries with larger lists than the Philippines are the United States with 14.2 million; the United Kingdom, 1.9 million; Canada, 1.2 million; Brazil, 830,615; Germany, 762,055; Mexico, 671,761; Australia, 642,949; France, 556,301; Spain, 520,324; Italy, 471,188; Argentina, 357,212; and Peru, 317,726.
Other Asian countries listed in the website with more than 100,000 potential sex partners are Malaysia, 177,996; Singapore, 126,248; Japan, 112,053; and China, 106,163.
Santiago is pushing for the swift approval of new legislation that would impose tougher penalties on cyber sex operators.
"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.