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COMPENDIUM IN
ARALING PANLIPUNAN 10
(MGA KONTEMPORARYONG ISYU)

Researchers:

Bautista, Khale Cedrick De Borja

Chavez, Jeremy P.
Malazzab, Nomher Jay A.
Salcedo, Marc Vincent A.
Teodocio, Jan Jomari SJ.
Abagat, Ryza Mitzi A. M
Adsuara, Anica Marriel V.
Beltran, Jamyca Ann B.
Dasig, Ezra Joylah -
Mancera, Erich Constantine P.
Paderes, Risha Nicole O.
Roan, Cassandra Nicole C.

LEE MAR E. CORPIN

Teacher

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. Mission………………………………………………………………… 3

I. Vision…………………………………………………………………. 3

II. Goals………………………………………………………………….. 3

III. Core Values………………………………………………………….. 4

IV. General Objectives ………………………………………………………4

V. The Subject………………………………………………………….. 5

 The Student……………………………………………………….……6

 Foreword ………………………………………………………………7

 Research………………………………………………………………9

 Documentation…………………………………………………….. ..10

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Grade / Section: Grade 10 -
Subject : Araling Panlipunan – Mga Kontemporaryong Isyu

I. Vision
Angono Private High School is committed to provide holistic
development of human life, anchored on strong moral values, in
service to God and mankind.

II. Mission
As an educational institution, Angono Private High School
aims to efficiently and effectively provide students with a learning
environment that fosters upright citizenship, produce academically
competent graduates, and advocate social awareness and community
development.

III. Goals
Angono Private High School is committed to provide quality
secondary education to our students that will make them well- rounded
morally upright, and worthy citizens.
We shall do this by continuously improving our quality
management system by upgrading the competencies of our employees
and by improving our processes and facilities that provide necessary
structure to the delivery of our secondary education.
We shall strive to meet all statutory and regulatory
requirements and build better partnership not only to the parents and
guardians of our students but also to our suppliers and the other
stakeholders of our school.

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IV. Core Values

Service, Integrity, Discipline and Excellence

V. General Objectives

1. To develop professional competencies of the academic and non-academic

personnel.
2. To provide functional and adequate learning facilities to enhance students'
skills and competence.
3. To promote client satisfaction by providing quality services
4. To increase revenues and operating income needed to sustain and
expand the school.
5. To establish, document, implement and maintain clearly defined school
processes and systems.

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The Subject:

MGA KONTEMPORARYONG ISYU

The subject gives the student in-depth understanding on the current or

past events and issues that affects our society. Also, it discusses about the
process such as the assessment, critical thinking and the effects of every issue
either good or bad from individual perspective up a global scale.
It includes also about the way of how people can overcome or answer the
economic, social, political, and environmental issue that will allow them to part of
the solution and gain important lessons that will help them in real life situations.
In addition to that students will be expected to developed social
awareness, critical thinking and responsible citizenship. Guided by the principles
of social justice and moral upright individuals, their decision-making skills will be
fair, non-biased that allows them to be enlightened from the past, current, and
future issues that affects and will affect our society.

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THE RESEARCHERS

Bautista, Khale Cedrick De Borja Chavez, Jeremy P. Malazzab, Nomher Jay A.

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Salcedo, Marc Vincent A. Teodocio, Jan Jomari SJ. Abagat, Ryza Mitzi A. M

THE RESEARCHERS

Adsuara, Anica Marriel V. Beltran, Jamyca Ann B. Dasig, Ezra Joylah

Mancera, Erich Constantine P. Paderes, Risha Nicole O. Roan, Cassandra Nicole C.

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FOREWORD

This compendium is a collection of reports and research that are based on

the specific topics given by the teacher for the subject Araling Panlipunan 10 –

Mga Kontemporaryong Isyu which may serve as a guide to the students to

demonstrate, understand the principles, theories, and critically analyze different

issues and problems in contemporary world. It will equip students to gain wide

and in-depth knowledge, skills, and competencies in developing and utilizing

appropriate and effective traditional and authentic assessment tools.

This compendium is intended to be a living document that reflects the

state of knowledge at the time it was compiled, and it provides a structure that

should allow it to grow to incorporate new frameworks and tools.

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RESEARCH

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Subject : Araling Panlipunan 10

Subject Title : Mga Kontemporaryong Isyu
Researcher : Group 2
Topic : Should prostitution be legalized in our country?

I. INTRODUCTION:
What is the difference between sex work and prostitution? Sex workers are
adults who receive money or goods in exchange for consensual sexual services
or erotic performances, either regularly or occasionally. The term “sex worker”
recognizes that sex work is work. Prostitution, on the other hand, has
connotations of criminality and immorality.

Prostitution is the act of engaging in sexual activity with someone who is not your
relative in exchange for payment. Prostitution can be female, male, or even
homosexual. Views on prostitution are shaped by cultural norms that differ from
society to society. Prostitutes have been considered members of a legitimate
profession in certain communities, but they have also been scorned, mocked,
and sentenced to death, being imprisoned or executed in others.

Sex worker organizations oppose exploitation, and many argue that the most
effective way to address exploitation, including human trafficking, is to strengthen
workers’ rights and address economic injustices. The only effective way to lessen
the sex trafficking is for it to be legalized.

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II. DISCUSSION:

As sex work is seen as a faster method for earning money, based on the study of
the Philippine Commission on Women, there are about 500,000 sex workers in
the Philippines, and the majority of them were lured and exploited by crime
syndicates. Especially in times of crises, the number of victims increases. In
Davao City, the capital of Mindanao Island, there is an estimate of 4,000
prostitutes, 40 percent of whom are under the legal age of 18 years old.

At a very young age, teenagers who are 17 years old and below are coerced into
the sex industry by the influence of the society and by the mindset of adults that
are pro-prostitution.

It is a bleak cycle that occurs in the areas where poverty is prevalent in the
Philippines, where teens should worry about their education, their priority is how
to attract wealthy customers. Children of prostitutes are the ones most prone to
become prostitutes themselves. Child prostitution violates their rights and dignity
that affects their mental and even physical health which can lead to suffering and
worse, suicide.

Legalizing prostitution in our country will increase the violence and drug abuse on
women in prostitution that based on the interview about sexual violence and war
on drugs wayback 2021, they were used as a courier by the police to take drugs

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to the buyers. Beside that, they were also forced to use illegal drugs and later
arrest them and put them in jail—which most of them were killed. Way back when

Duterte started the war on drugs, the women in prostitution were particularly
targeted.

In a 5-country study on sex trafficking, most of the trafficked and prostituted

women interviewed in the Philippines, Venezuela and the United States (3)

strongly stated their opinion that prostitution should not be legalized and
considered legitimate work, warning that legalization would create more risks and
harm for women from already violent customer and pimps (Raymond et al, 2002).
One woman said, “No way. It’s not a profession. It is humiliating, and violence
from the men’s side.” Not one woman we interviewed wanted her children, family
or friends to have to earn money by entering the sex industry. Another woman
stated: “Prostitution stripped me of my life, my health, everything” (Raymond et
al., 2002).

There is no evidence that legalization of prostitution makes things better for

women in prostitution. It certainly makes things better for governments who
legalize prostitution and of course, for the sex industry, both of which enjoy
increased revenues. The popular fiction that all will be well in the world of
prostitution once the sex industry is legalized or decriminalized, is repudiated by
evidence that the degradation and exploitation of women, as well as the harm,
abuse, and violence to women still remain in state-sponsored prostitution. State-
sponsored prostitution sanitizes the reality of prostitution. Suddenly, dirty money
becomes clean. Illegal acts become legal. Overnight, pimps are transformed into
legitimate businessmen and ordinary entrepreneurs, and men who would not
formerly consider buying a woman in prostitution think, “Well, if it’s legal, if it’s
decriminalised, now it must be O.K.” Governments that legalize prostitution as

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“sex work” will have a huge economic stake in the sex industry. Consequently,
this will foster their increased dependence on the sex sector. If women in
prostitution are counted as workers, then governments can abdicate
responsibility for making decent and sustainable employment available to
women.

Prostitution in the Philippines is illegal with its specific outlaw specifically stated
by the Revised Penal Code. Sex for money is also frowned upon by society. The

conditions are no different from that of the Netherlands, a country infamous for its
Red Light Districts and sex trade. Similarly, the Philippines has been the haven
of “sex tours” which allowed foreigners to cohabit with women for a fixed price
including airfare. The difference between the two however is that in the
Philippines the incidence of child trafficking and sexual abuse has remained a big
problem and so are STDs, there is a steadily increasing number of prostitutes
driven to come to the trade because of poverty, and the sex trade has remained
unregulated. In the Netherlands, the number of prostitutes is diminishing and so
are sex violations.

The incidence of STD remains no different from the community not involved in
the trade, and the rest of Europe, and prostitution is regulated.

Legalization of prostitution does not only violate human rights, but also harms
oneself’s dignity and mental and physical health. Those who are victims of abuse
in prostitution experience severe and long lasting physical and mental health
problems. Prostitution is harmful, constantly repeated experience of submitting to
unwanted sex is very damaging to a person’s mental health, self-esteem and
sexuality. It is studied and confirmed that those who engage in sex work
especially prostitution may be at higher risk of sexually transmitted infections

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(STIs), sexual or physical violence, incarceration, and reproductive coercion than
the general population.

III. CONCLUSION:
In conclusion, legalizing prostitution is unnecessary and shouldn’t be considered.
Partaking in these kinds of activities is unethical and damages the rights of a

human person. Prostitution might lead to health risks like Hiv, Aids, Gonorrhea,
and more. There are better alternatives than prostitution. Organizations like Dole
and Tesda help you find jobs that are suited for you and hone your skills for jobs
you can apply to. Prostitution in general already made society have a low point of
view towards women and men who partake in these kinds of activities. If
prostitution remains to continue, abuse and exploitation against women who are
part of the sex industry will continue.

Nevertheless, it's important to understand the difference between sex work and
prostitution, and how legalizing this contributes to undesirable effects to the
society, especially in our country, the Philippines. We know that poverty and
limited opportunities can push individuals, including teens, into the sex industry.
A society where prostitution is legalized will increase the demand for the act
which has a high medical risk to the clients. Therefore, prostitution should be
illegal.

As we move forward, legalizing prostitution is unnecessary, this may lead to

various health problems and other factors that may affect the rights of a person.
Various departments such as the Department of Health(DOH), Department of

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Labour and Employment (DOLE), and Local Government Units(LGUs) will help in
providing jobs and to transition out of the sex industry.

To conclude this compendium, legalizing prostitution will not only be unfavorable

but would also be harmful to the dignity and rights of those in the sex industry, as
well as their safety and health. It should also be known that the people that are
harmed through prostitution are not only the workers but also the clients, as they

themselves also take on the risks of blackmail, extortion, to be forced to take

illegal drugs and many others. Legalizing prostitution and taking it as a
profession will bring nothing but risks and hazards to the country and its citizens.

DOCUMENTATION

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