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THAT is what we talked about at the Kapihan sa Manila Hotel hosted by former senator Joey Lina and former communications secretary Sonny Coloma. The topic was obscenity and the provision in Art. 201 of the Revised Penal Code that penalizes obscenity published or otherwise disseminated.
One current tendency is to "relativize" the matter — and say: "It all depends." Ethically, what is wrong with obscenity, especially in regard to sex, is that it trivializes sex and makes it a spectacle for the entertainment of others or a matter of hilarity. Obviously, this transgresses the dignity of the human person and "reifies" the human body — makes it a thing that one can expose to others without compunction, disregarding the fact that the human body is the very presence, the very expression and the concreteness of the human person.
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