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Prostitute Round-Up: our favorite topic, YAY!
5 comments Posted in: UncategorizedTagged with boracay, legal, politics, prostitution, social
Our favorite topic about Boracay is back! The semi-regulated prostitution business. The government says it doesn’t want it here it and has placed the police on heightened vigilance…. I guess someone forgot to tell Manila that the police already regulate it and have been planting a boot in the ass of girls with expired pink-cards (health slip) for a long while now. They’ve already arrested 36 so far this year and apparently have a hard-on for ladyboys (pun intended).
If you look at the bottom, you’ll see a picture of 2 shirtless white-guys with their butt-cracks showing, clearly not in a prostitute area of the beach and young/fit enough to probably not in need of payin’ for the pooty.
http://aklanforum.blogspot.com/2009/02/boracay-pnp-25-women-prostitutes-11.html
Boracay PNP: 25 women prostitutes, 11 ‘lady boys’ arrested
BY BOY RYAN B. ZABAL / Panay News
BORACAY – At least 36 persons including 11 ‘lady boys’ believed to be vagrants and prostitutes were separately arrested by the Boracay Special Tourist Protection Office (BSTPO) this year.
Superintendent Arnold Ardiente, deputy Aklan police director for operations, vowed to continue the drive following the complaints of foreign tourists victimized by sex workers or prostituted women in the island.
“The crackdown of commercial sex workers was intensified on popular bars frequented by tourists in the beachfront. The offenders were charged of anti-vagrancy law before the Aklan Prosecutor’s Office,” he said.
Ardiente, current BSTPO chief, said there were no minors apprehended since last month during the anti-vagrancy operations of the police. Those arrested, mostly women in early 20s, were found loitering and stay late at night in bars to attract customers in this typical island paradise.
Over 400 resorts, hotels, bars and restaurants, normally own by foreigners are doing business in the island. Young women work in tourism-related occupation as hotel clerks, waitresses or shop sales ladies.
A vagrant is defined in Article 202 of the Revised Penal Code as “any person having no apparent means of subsistence,” or “found loitering around public or semi-public buildings or places” without visible means of support, or “any idle or dissolute person who lodges in houses of ill-fame.”
“To eliminate vagrants in the island, the apprehending officers are conducting daily rounds of alleged sex workers, especially the ‘lady boys’ even at the wee hours of the morning,” Ardiente added.
To decriminalize vagrancy, Senator Francis Escudero authored Senate Bill No. 1965 to provide equal protection to children, women and men as law enforcement officers cannot anymore recklessly use vagrancy in arbitrary arrests.
“The existing law on vagrancy fails to see that vagrants are victims of poverty and the lack of opportunities for employment and access to decent standards of living and quality of life,” Escudero stressed.
“The existing law on vagrancy fails to see that vagrants are victims of poverty and the lack of opportunities for employment and access to decent standards of living and quality of life,” Escudero stressed.
Sunday, February 08, 2009
Boracay exec orders crackdown of ‘prostitutes’BY BOY RYAN B. ZABAL / Panay News
BORACAY – With many unsolved cases involving suspected commercial sex workers, Malay Mayor Ceciron Cawaling called on the Philippine National Police (PNP) to tighten its watch on this island resort’s ‘prostitutes’.
“It has come to my attention the reports of robbery cases victimizing foreigners in the island. The offenders should be arrested by the police to improve the image of Boracay Island as a tourist destination,” he said over DyRU Super Radyo Kalibo.
Tourism is the island’s main industry that attracts thousands of local and foreign tourists yearly. The rising population brought about by the construction boom, however, contributes to the environmental decline of the island.
Cawaling said he urged Supt. Arnold Ardiente, Boracay police chief, to establish close partnership with business owners and community leaders to protect the island from ‘robbers’.
End Child Prostitution Pornography and Trafficking (ECPAT), a network of organizations working to promote the best interest of children in tourism, identified specific tourist establishments, mostly discos and bars, where sex tourists procure their services in the island.
Most of the girls interviewed by ECPAT said they are forced to engage in this trade because they have no opportunities for work. The study found that generally, the girls frequent discos and bars and show themselves off to potential sex buyers by hanging around or by displaying themselves off through sexy or dirty dancing in these discos and bars.
“While it is a fact that tourism in Boracay has obviously brought in money for the government, it too has its social costs. Boracay attracts not just responsible tourists who compose the majority, but also visitors whose purpose to travel is to exploit and engage in sexual activities involving children. This situation in turn makes other children in Boracay highly at risk due to exposure to the trade,” ECPAT said in its study on the “Situational Analysis of the Effects of Tourism on Children in Boracay.”
Last week, seven alleged commercial sex workers were apprehended by the Boracay Special Tourist Protection Office (BSTPO) for vagrancy cases and were detained at the Aklan Rehabilitation Center .
At least five municipal ordinances on loitering and prohibiting prostitution were enacted to uphold and safeguard the human rights, including those of children.
Thursday, February 05, 2009
Boracay ‘prostitutes’ arrested by policeBY BOY RYAN B. ZABAL / Panay News / Manila Bulletin
BORACAY – Six female prostitutes were apprehended by the Boracay Special Tourist Protection Office (BSTPO) on Tuesday night.
They are facing vagrancy cases before the Aklan Prosecutor’s Office yesterday afternoon, BSTPO chief Supt. Arnold Ardiente said.
Another male prostitute from Barangay Pook, Kalibo, Aklan was also held in custody and charged of vagrancy. They were loitering ‘in ‘pick-up points’ like karaoke bars and disco where these girls and boys go to be seen by potential customers at 11:30 p.m. Tuesday.
The six alleged commercial prostitutes from Baguio City, Mina town of Iloilo, Toledo in Cebu, Kalibo, Aklan and Nabas, Aklan were arrested during nightly patrols of BSTPO elements in Barangay Balabag and Manoc-Manoc.
“The police have intensified the drive against these sex workers who were plying their trade on unsuspecting foreigners in the island. The offenders were detained at the Aklan Rehabilitation Center (ARC) in Barangay, Nalook, Kalibo, Aklan,”Ardiente stressed.
Gays and female commercial sex workers, most of them are not residents of Boracay Island, are reportedly the suspects in robbery cases involving male foreigners.
This typical island paradise is attracting more than 600,000 tourists yearly, of which 30 percent are foreigners.
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i know there allot of shit going on.. but you know guys Philippines is suck right? all happening so no body can blame everyone. that their doing shit here anyway each of us hes diff kinds of purposes her,, so guys bit it .. how about some people do this coz they need it.. no ones 2 blame..nobodies perfect but i mean we have our own freedom sometimes we think this is right but no.. will life is life..everybody is living 4 something.. but sometimes we should understand OK..
Mar 9, 2009 at 11:29 PM
but sometimes i see some young women . that’s not good ..
will business is business OK .. its ok .. i think .. wher do thier money goes????? but its working! -
I think it’s funny they keep referring to it as illegal, but if they have a pink card they are permitted to ply their trade!
Feb 26, 2009 at 6:20 PM -
It might only be 25% in people, but it would be 50% of income. Cocomangas and Summer Place are like 90% workers these days. I cant stand Summer place anymore; I was talking with an Australian girl there and a whore crammed in between us like it was no big deal.
I hear these terms like “exploitation” and “forced” and my all-time most hated— ” trafficking”. It pisses me off. Theres not a single girl here forced into prostitution. There are only 2 organizations on this small island – the Philippine government and the registered Muslim Vendor group (which is 800+ members strong, much more than gov’t).
I call BULLSHIT. These working girls are referred to as waitresses and masseuses when they get cracked-up and overdose causing death. Then its somehow blamed on foreigners. OK….. WE FUCKING GET IT ALREADY— you’re 18 yr old girls wouldnt be selling ass if there wasnt a demand… but wait, Subic closed down a decade ago and theres still over 10,000 prostitutes there…. I’m thinking of a movie called Soylent Green.
My point is that I’m sick as shit of hearing that its the sexpats fault.
Feb 25, 2009 at 7:38 AM -
Please………… all they have to do is go to NiNigi’s around sunset, then Cocomangas and get the rest of the girls around midnight. Case closed….. tourism down 25%.
Feb 24, 2009 at 7:30 PM
Umm… Philippines doesn’t suck. Who said that? I have a trust fund all throughout the islands! So does a few others reading this….. hahaha
Anyway Anne, I mean channefrienne, thanks for supporting the girls on the island. We owe ya a drink. Or 500 pesos and breakfast! Yea!
(I didnt understand shit she said, somebody translate…)
Mar 10, 2009 at 9:19 PM