The kind of anti-pornographer the PAAP represents, who sees skin and sexuality as pornography is akin to one who considers every expression of dissent as subversive. Both are witch-hunters, reactionary, homophobic, and, as some say, pharisaic.

If the PAAP is truly concerned about the welfare of children, its members would be more fruitfully employed supporting in deeds rather than words DILG Secretary Puno’s efforts to separate juveniles from adults in the country’s jails, Rep. Simeon Datumanong’s HB 5065 that calls for a comprehensive juvenile justice system and dismissal of 70 percent of criminal cases against children, and the Senate’s Comprehensive Juvenile Justice Law passed December last year, now subject to bicameral review. According to Juvenile Justice Network Philippines, 4,000 minors are "in conflict with the law."

Instead of just writing the UNICEF to probe MTRCB, they should instead consider the agency’s appeal for donations, considering that (as UNICEF’s brochure says) 20,000 children all over the Philippines are sleeping in the same cells with hardened adult criminals.

"Deprived of families and communities, drug dealers, murderers, and rapists become the children’s fathers, brothers, and friends. Will we still wonder what they will grow up to be? Let us give these children a better alternative."

That "better alternative" is certainly not achieved by banning "offensive" and "objectionable" films and "probing" the members of the MTRCB. Children in jail or out in the streets begging (some even in the clutches of ‘syndicates’) need protection from harsh realities than from what is regarded as "pornography."

The true obscenity, the real pornography, is the plight of these children, the "future without a present."

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