This is the last time I will be talking about that sex video scandal rocking the country at the moment. I have to do this because many people are asking what I think about it.
To my mind, the medical doctor involved was a nobody in our society before he became the boyfriend of a cosmetic beauty doctor. Hence, when he hitched up with her, instantly, he became a celebrity.
Unable to tackle the pressures of being in the limelight, of having an identity of his own, separate from the beauty doctor, he lapsed into depression. As a medical doctor, he had highest esteem of himself. But in society, he was only a "bf" of that doctor and so his self-confidence dipped.
Taking drugs, he got into worse straits, and kept the wrong company for friends.
Now, should he be punished? Yes, I think he should be.
Two, what is wrong with the medical education program? It is too focused on the anatomy of the human body which then makes the students also narrow in terms of approaching social and political problems. There are other fields in the medical profession however which are open to discussions and analyses of those which could affect their patients. However, the medical profession itself is bureaucratized, so if one profession has this area of expertise, others would not meddle on that one but concentrate on their own.
Hence, a great need exists to review the curriculum of the medical profession.
Three, media could be requested also to tone down their coverage of those sex issues and rather treat them as aberrations in the way sex education is handled in the Philippines. We need a more enlightened view of sex, not only those falling under marriage. The lack of divorce law, the ban on contraceptives by the Catholic church,and traditional notions of man-woman relationships, all these contribute to that "allure of sex" that the medical doctor revealed in his panel interview at the Senate.
Lastly, Philippine society needs maturity definitely in many aspects of life.
- Wilhelmina S. Orozco
"Birth of Venus, Goddess of Love," by Botticelli, 1485
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