CEBU CITY, Philippines – The police arrested 21 men and women allegedly involved in prostitution during a saturation drive conducted in down town Cebu City early Saturday morning.
With the bust and shut down of an expat favorite in Lapu Lapu a few months ago, perhaps Cebu is showing real intent to stop the sex tourism.
Senior Inspector George Ylanan, chief of the Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Branch (CIIB) of the Cebu City Police Office, said the operation was conducted after police received complaints from the City Anti-Indecency Board.
Most of the men and women were arrested along Magallanes and P. Lopez streets. Police said they were standing by the roadside waiting for customers.
Ylanan said that because they were not caught in the act, they will only be charged with vagrancy.
The saturation drive was the second biggest operation against prostitution in two weeks’ time.
Two weeks ago, the CIIB and other city police units also rescued 18 females believed to be prostituted women in Barangay (village) Kamagayan.
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Hi, Rusty! Hope this finds you well and loving “every minute of it there.” I’ve been living in Spain for three decades, and this town I live in has become a haven for sex tours. As you open the back parts of newspapers (especially those free ones and there are many of them) you’ll find pages of prostitutes advertising their “physical wares”. Even the Japanese and the Chinese have joined the English, the Scandinavians, the Eastern Europeans and the Spanish in advertising themselves. No, there are no restrictions here, and indeed, many of them in the big cities like Madrid, Barcelona and Sevilla are full of them along the main thoroughfares and side streets. So, it is nice to know that the Cebu authorities are doing the best they can to get rid of sex tourist trade. All countries do have them. In the case of Thailand, it has made the country economically rich and they have no shame in admitting it although they are now getting embarrassed at the high rate of the population indulging in this trade.
Hill, I wont comment on the Philippine government as it is against the law for me to do so.
I think the US should remove laws involving these type of things among adults. I don’t think it is any of my business what other adults do. I don’t think I and certainly the government has the right to tell others what is right and wrong morally for them or to impose popular Christian morals on others.
What is taboo for one culture is culture for another one. For example, some of the Easter activities in the Philippines has even been featured on the National Geographic show Taboo. Nailing of people to the cross is a shocking thing to westerners. Now I personally respect the people that do this but for many it is unacceptable. If it happened in the US, I think the government would try to prevent it. They’d have trouble doing so though, getting around the separation of church and state would likely prevent the government from acting. At least I hope so.
Suppressing these kinds of things, tends to result in more problems, not less. I’m not inclined to pay for this kind of thing, I wouldn’t get much out of that but if someone else does, its not my place to judge that.
Though I do understand and respect your opinion and I don’t partake of such activities here or any where else, I’m not going to condemn those that do either.
I do want to bring out the truth. I’m beginning to think there are a lot of expats kidding themselves.
heck Rusty as many ladies that stopped at night in Davao every time I walked at night to give massage, hehe I thought it must be like Reno, or Nevada where my Brother live and it was legal. Trying to be polite I just gave them hotel and room number and said if Josey said is ok with her is ok with me and kept walking.
Hello Andy! Thanks for stopping by.
I rarely go out without Jessie so I don’t get much of that.. What I do get though are just local girls being flirty which I enjoy.
Its a bit more hidden in Bogo but not that hidden.
There is a “sin strip” down near the public market I’m told. I’ve never been down there at night. An expat came up and said he ran into a LOT of them there.
Its really not legal in most places in Las Vegas, just a few spots unless it has changed. Never interested me. I guess there’s always a first time though.
Might be followed with a second time if there was a first time. What I’ve seen here seems more friendly here than in the US. 
I can’t keep up with the Filipina I have though.
Man I wish I had moved here when I was 30.
Prostitution is common everywhere, sad to say. Most of them is the result of poverty trying to survive, others are probably an addiction or spending money for their drug/alcohol addiction. Even the high society has their own prostitution problem, only that it is done quietly and expensively. Our governor here in NY got caught with that and resigned. Be careful though, these girls are not checked by health officials,or could not afford to pay for check-ups. You do not want to give that to your wives/girlfriends…and condoms do not protect your from HIV or any VDs.