Fetish is defined by dictionary.com as ``Something, such as a material object or a nonsexual part of the body, that arouses sexual desire and may become necessary for sexual gratification" or ``An abnormally obsessive preoccupation or attachment; a fixation."
Since our genes have been essentially programmed for two missions- survival and procreation-some of our procreational stimulus comes in the form of fetishes. And capturing a consensual sexual act in video is just part of this fetish for some (orgies, dominatrice sex & etc.).
Scandals arise when such fetishes are leaked into the controversy hungry public. For instance in the account of the Halili-Kho scandal as discussed in Halili Kho Sex Video Scandal: A Case of Political Opportunism, it's seems hypocritical that many people have used the unfortunate incident to moralize on the alleged misbehavior of others but in themselves engage in consuming the scandal. Who among those moralizers haven't watched the "evil" video?
Furthermore, they are snared by politicians as opportunities to advertise themselves especially with the forthcoming elections (smacks of political opportunism) and or utilize such opportunities to promote the encroachment and restrictions of our civil liberties, by proposing meaningless and unenforceable laws which only promote systemic inefficiencies and corruption in the government system, in the name of farcical nobility.
The point of this blog is to demonstrate the exaggeration of such scandals as a public issue.
Why have Filipinos been so fixated with the Halili Kho scandal when there have been other local scandals which involved other media personalities?
In countries like the US, sex scandals, while indeed attracts public attention don't hold up to become governance or political issues.
This from manolith.com's: Celebrity Sex Tapes: A Laughing Stock or a Catapult to Fame
``It’s difficult to go 30 minutes in this 24-hour news cycle world without hearing about another alleged sex tape. Most recently, defamed politician John Edwards has been mentioned to have recorded a sex tape with his former mistress. This “credible” information came from a disgruntled former staffer who, according to reports, will soon be releasing a tell all book about the affair.
``It’s stories like this that has caused the once sensational sex tape, to become just another blip on the radar and an annoying sideshow for the cable news cycle to report. Today, after all, it has become very rare for a sex tape to become a big career booster, as it once was for such “celebrities” as Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian. Regardless of the public’s weaning voyeuristic appetite, managers and publicists continue to exhaust and exploit this medium for the career booster it was once hoped to be. But is this always the case? The following are 15 examples of peculiar celebrity sex tapes and their implications."
Read the 15 examples here.
Lesson: Celebrity scandals are a way of life, here, in Hong Kong, in the US or elsewhere. And you can't legislate morality. The unintended consequences could probably be that of the promotion of extortion.
``Our increased reliance on laws to regulate behavior is a measure of how uncivilized we've become" Walter Williams on Law versus Moral Value
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