Opinion Polls
By Marichel Teves-Magalona

Do you believe that indeed Boracay is haven for sex tourism?

STELLA ARUNGAYAN
No! Cuz I recently went there for sex and didn't find any! Bwahaha… Seriously now. People go there to party and have fun. If they come with partners then of course it just much too obvious that they didn't just go there to swim or pray the rosary. There are hardly sex workers there. If one has sex there, it might be incidental and a consequence of the partying.

MILDRED NECESSARIO
Yes indeed! It's an island wherein sex trade is the main component of night life as well as during daylight.

TERRI AMADOR
Undeniably so. At a place where drugs and parties mix like sea and sand, could sex be far behind? I don't think so.

ANN DIVINAGRACIA
Why don't we do as our favorite senators and congressmen do: organize a fact finding mission in aid of legislation? I'm sure we won't be in want of eager volunteers.

EMMA NAVA
Anyplace where there is a market for it… It doesn't have to be just Boracay. There's Puerto Gallera, Angeles City and the list goes on….

ANGEL DOMINGO
I believe so. You can see them everywhere and it is just getting worse. The local government should do something about it before it further degrades Boracay.

CHARIE GINETE-ILON
Although Boracay provides the perfect atmosphere for fun and leisure, I'd like to think that our prime tourist destination is a haven for tourists and not sex tourism… yet!

CAROLINE JAVELLANA
No no no! I've been to Boracay for several times already and people are so warmth. Just a big NO to speak against sex tourism to my favorite vacation island!

ELIZA JUNE VERDE-PAGTANAC
Maybe but not very rampant.

DR. WENDY UY
Anything is possible especially in a place like Boracay. I hope and I pray that government church officials will try to do something so that Boracay will be a safe and wholesome place for the family!

BORDZ DEGOMA
Having been to Boracay for a couple of times have given me a glimpse of how girls at a very young age was having sex with foreigners 3 folds their age.

ARLEEN MERCADO
I don't think so, coz most of the people visiting the island, Filipinos & foreigners alike, usually comes as couples or even as families in search of clean fun on this marvelous Boracay…

BIKAY BERMEJO
I don't think so. Tourists go there to enjoy the sun, beach and party. Sex is just a bonus.

FAYE PIANO
Of course everyone can see that, and it's so sad coz children as young as 11 years old are already into prostitution! The only consolation (if it is a consolation) is that Boracay prostitution is not as much as in Cebu and Manila.

DR. LOUIE KANAPI
No, I don't think so. What I worry is that drugs & marijuana are readily available.

DESIREE BRETAÑA
Most of us would like to believe otherwise but the Boracay party scene suggest it is so.

DR. BELLE JAYME
There is definitely a lot of sex going on around there but I don't think it is being systematically promoted, advertised, encouraged or even accepted.

KATRINA LEDESMA
Sex tourism is everywhere, not just in Boracay. We can't pinpoint it as The place when it is one among many.

ARLENE JUANTONG
No, I don't believe it. Tourists go to Boracay because of its unmatched beauty not sex.

CHRISTIA ABLONA
NO!

MALS TINSAY-LOCSIN
I hope not! But if it is so, sex is traded where there are buyers, not just in Boracay but everywhere.

CANDY CAMPOS
In a discreet way, yes. But anywhere in this part of this world, there are really sex havens.