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Whaaaaaat!! SRSLY?!? I can't take this anymore!

I went home a little late just the other night so took a taxi. The taxi driver was only too eager to discourse on his reactions to the Hayden Kho - Katrina Halili scandal.

"Kawawa naman talaga yung si Katrina Halili mam, umiyak pa nga (I felt so sorry for Katrina Halili, she was crying)," he said. "Bentang benta na ang video ngayon, tag-50 isa (The video is selling like hotcakes, 50 pesos each)."

I told him I thought the police were cracking down on the vids. He said it was only in Quiapo. There are other places in Manila, after all, like Monumento and Divisoria.

Okay, I was glad to see my own street corner. I had been writing an article about Hayden Kho and wanted to not see or hear that name again for like a couple of days.

But what is this??

In the alley I usually pass through to get home, there are some benches. I usually have to excuse myself passing through groups of people busy gossiping. Usually, there were older people but that night teenagers, aged about 15 or so, were there. Girls, at that. I could not believe what they were talking about!

"Grabe naman yung si Hayden Kho, hot na hot (That Hayden Kho is really something, he was raring to go at it)," I heard one of them say as I approached.

"At nakita nyo ba si Katrina, pumapadyak padyak pa ang paa (And did you see Katrina (Halili), she was even pedaling her feet)," another put in. The whole bunch collapsed into giggles then went on discussing the sex videos in detail without a trace of embarrassment.

I felt SO mortified for them. I was shaking with indignation when I finally got home.

What are these people thinking about? What are the politicians and leaders of our country thinking? What are the parents thinking?

How did the videos proliferate so much that even the children had easy access to it, to the extent that they could discuss them chapter and verse? And who let them watch those videos?

Why is it that those children could easily discuss Hayden Kho's videos and dissect his performance in bed, but probably could not summarize the Noli Me Tangere or the El Filibusterismo? Why is it that people could summon up outrage over his behavior but not over the book blockade, or over corruption, or over all the other issues besieging the country?

Why is it that people can probably recount in detail all the things that happened from Vicki Belo and Hayden Kho's breakup to present updates, yet cannot even name one symptom of swine flu?

OMG whyyyyy????

Latest Internet buzz: another scandal involving Dr. Hayden Kho. No wait, drop that "doctor" from his name, or the rest of the medical practitioners in the Philippines will react violently. Hayden Kho. (The ladies on Plurk have a discussion going here.)

After featuring prominently in a love triangle with the eminent Dr. Vicky Belo and the luscious Katrina Halili and attempting suicide, scandal continues stalking him, it seems. Not only was a video of him and Katrina getting, um, intimate, posted on YouTube, but this time, buzz has it that he is in another scandalous video with ANOTHER girl. Okay, that makes me wonder whether the first instance was really, well, tsamba.

There's talk of getting him disciplined by the professional associations he belongs to (I heard interviews on the radio earlier today).

But really, guys. What is this thing about sex videos? Why do people have to go and take videos of themselves during such private moments? For what? Personal gratification? To share with the whole world?

Why?

It's no concern of ours who you men (and I use the plural, this is not directed at any specific person) sleep with, as long as you are both consenting adults who will not be hurting anyone else by your actions (i.e., unmarried or uncommitted). That is an intimate, private act between two individuals. At the very least, a sense of decency should stop you from talking, or even boasting, about it to your friends, or to anyone, much more from taking videos of the act, and worse, showing them off to the rest of the world. If it doesn't, if you don't have even a scrap of that sense of decency, then you are a jerk. There are worse things to call you, but jerk is the only thing that comes to mind at present.

Some men would say that chivalry is dead, that there are no gentlemen left. How low could you sink? That's not even an excuse to treat women with disrespect. A woman getting intimate with you, sleeping with you, doesn't immediately convert her from angel to whore. (And even sex workers have rights, don't forget that.) It is not an excuse for you to treat her as if she is not entitled to feel shame or embarrassment anymore. Women have feelings. They have senses. Same as you.

I hate to have to say this, but we Filipinos know "mabilis ang karma (karma works fast)." You may be men, but you have mothers, grandmothers, aunts, sisters, even nieces, daughters and granddaughters. What you do to a woman may not rebound on you or affect you directly, but it might just happen to one of the women in your life. Perhaps, in several years more, you would be watching a scandalous sex video but this time with tears and anger, for the girl or woman in the video is a member of your family. Hypocritical tears and anger, for after all, did you not do the same thing yourself in the past? How does the shoe fit, in that instance?

Or wait. Maybe you just wouldn't care. But then, would you still be worthy to be called a human being?