Gay celebrity sex tape surfaces in Philippines
By Rhett Pardon
April 28, 2005
Manila — The celebrity sex tape business has taken this capital city of the
Philippines by storm. Numerous celebrities have been caught on tape, surprised
— or not so surprised — to learn later that it was all captured by a cellphone
camera.
Actor Piolo Pascual is the latest Filipino celebrity to be caught on tape.
Pascual follows a number of pop icons, including Ethel Booba, Jennylyn Mercado
and Karel Marquez, whose sexual prowess caught on tape have commanded market
share.
In a cellphone kiosk off a street in Makati, the business district of Metro
Manila, a peddler sells sex-tape downloads for 220 pesos, or $4. Internet sites
command even a higher price.
In Pascual’s case, he is having sex with another man, according to most who
have seen the video.
But with the cellphone’s inherent small-screen format, some question whether it
really is him.
“First of all, the video was shot in a .3 Gps format, which rendered it fuzzy
and grainy. Now how can people just believe that the man in the video was
Piolo?” celebrity reporter Crispina Belen asked. “Was that a clear picture of
him?”
Belen said that a trend in the Philippines is to sell celebrity sex tapes on
the market in a quick-and-dirty fashion, regardless of authenticity.
“What I’m more concerned about are the other cellphone sex videos of
celebrities being spread around,” Belen said. “I just hope that before anyone
buys them off the street or downloads them from Limewire or any other
peer-to-peer sites, they should think first before believing these things to be
true.
“This is not in defense of Piolo, but it’s disappointing that people would
simply believe as true these alleged mobile phone sex videos of some
celebrities that seem to proliferate nowadays.”
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