Porn According to Manoling Morato

Below is an excerpt of an interview made by ANC host Ms. Luchi Cruz-Valdes with former MTRCB chair Manoling Morato. I found their conversation very interesting.

''Breasts that look like dried prunes not porn'. Two breasts equal pornography--with exceptions. says Manoling Morato.

Ms. Luchi-Cruz Valdes asked if he agreed with the rules that specified that one breast could be shown, not two. "It depends," said Morato. It is all right if the breast is shown sideways and nudged slightly into sight, but not if the full breast is shown.

Valdes attempted to ask him again. "Some people will say, two breasts: pornographic. One breast: acceptable. What is it for you?"

Morato responded that he believed there was an exception to the one-breast rule.

"You know I did allow that film with two-breast exposure. I forgot the name of that, it was, I think, Fatal Attraction. But the breasts of that actress, what's her name--"

"Glenn Close, I think," supplied Valdes.

"--were like prunes," Morato said. "They looked dried, like a prune, and it wasn't tempting at all. I allowed it all."

Valdes followed up. "So it's okay to show breasts as long as they're as big as prunes?"

"No, they were dried as prunes. They were regular breasts, but they were not attractive."

No comment here. I don't know what to say.

Kudos to Congressman Bienvenido Abante of the 6th District of Manila for always taking up the cudgel against pornography.

On the issue of why Playboy magazine should not be allowed to be published in the Philippines, the respectable congressman commented: "Dapat ba pati kalibugan ng tao pinagkakakitaan?"

Very well said. You're the man!