Sex inside prisons, schools, convents, churches and workplaces
Sex happens anywhere and anytime, in jails, in schools, in convents, seminaries, and in workplaces, whether inside the boardroom or in the toilets and dormitories. It is not the right to do, and it should never be done in the wrong place and at the wrong time, with the wrong partner, for the wrong reason.
Funny, but I was teaching the law on LSR (Love Sex, Romances) in the Workplace, and the Anti-Sexual Harassment Law in some universities in Baguio when the news broke out involving the police chief in Argao (the town of my birth, by the way) who was allegedly caught in bed with a 23 year-old detainee. It was not funny though to the PNP officialdom. The poor guy may be summarily dismissed, and perhaps even perpetually disqualified from holding any public office, whether appointive or elective. And his only defense is: "My only fault is that I fell in love." I am not condoning his offense, but my hypothesis is that this thing about sex is happening everywhere and every time.
I am not defending my town mate. He might have his fault too. He might have been very reckless and lacking in the fundamentals of decorum which is demanded of public officials. What I am saying is that there are hundreds, nay, thousands of worse cases involving other officials and men of high honor and exalted reputation, here and abroad. I easily recall President Bill Clinton and their sex episodes with Monica Lewinsky, leading to impeachment trial (although ended in acquittal). The much publicized rumors about the late President John F Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe inside the White House. I also remember the alleged sexual proclivity of our own President Manuel L Quezon, and, of course, President Ferdinand Marcos and Dovie Beams.
The late Manila Mayor Arsenio Lacson who died of heart attack, inside a hotel near Luneta with a young actress (was it Charito Solis?). There are many others, I think President Duterte remembers some of them. And most politicians consider these as occupational hazards or risks of the trade. A judge in Davao, like another judge in Las Piñas, was accused of sexual advances by a clerk who alleged that His Honor wanted to test his own many skills because of dysfunctions which might be called illegal possession of a dead weapon. He wanted the clerk to apply sufficient provocation, so that his weapon can be used in self-defense.
There was an NLRC Chairman who was dismissed by President GMA because he offered money in exchange for sex, and the girl complained. There were professors who were dismissed for demanding sex in exchange for good grades and tuition money. But the most controversial are sexual favors obtained by priests and pastors from seminarians and students, lesbian and gay sex inside churches and seminaries under undue influence and moral ascendancy. The president himself confessed that an alien priest attempted to abuse him when he was very young. Senator Joey Lina, the author of the Anti-Sexual Harassment Law, and I are doing a lecture series about all these. He discusses the law, and I discuss the many cases.
Yes, there are perhaps hundreds of thousands of sexual acts being done in jails, in churches, work places and many other unlikely places. But they are not reported. Well, we can only surmise, perhaps, the partners are enjoying, or they are suffering in silence because they do not see any hope of any positive action. This is a malady that is as serious as the coronavirus.
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