NO, WE’RE NOT talking about Carrie Bradshaw and her motley crew of promiscuous (sex-starved is way too much) career women in their mid-30s to 40s but yes, we will be talking about sex in the city, “I Am Iloilo City” that is.
Yes, it’s going to be the flesh on flesh, raw and cheap kind of sex, the one you buy on the street corner or sometimes see hiding in the bushes in some public park.
It’s not the discreet or not so, usually associated with the “sosyal” and the social climbers happening as you read this column in the upscale hotels and bars where they frequent to see and be seen.
This raunchy and earthy kind of cheap sex is more associated with the hoi polloi or the great unwashed, you know, the kind with no money to spare for a “short time” in one of the many motels in “I Am Iloilo City”.
Perhaps the libido is overwhelming complete with raging hormones that some people just can’t control themselves anymore and just shag whenever they feel like doing it, nevermind if it’s a very public place.
And we’re not talking about “Naked in Bucari” as that was not sex per se but a photography session and the female model just happened to be naked in full monty to all the lucky viewers.
This is shagging caught in flagrante delicto, in other words, coitus interruptus.
By this time either you’re turned on by our little foreplay or lost in translation with no idea what we’re talking about. So here we go:
Excerpts from the Sept. 9, 2019 issue of Panay News:
ESPLANADE ‘SEXCAPADE’
Lovers face ‘grave scandal’ rap for public sex
For some, the Iloilo Esplanade is more than just a recreational space for walking, jogging, open-air dining, and a venue for river water sports. It is also a rendezvous for sex.
Two lovers were caught making out in a dimly-lit portion of the esplanade on Saturday night.
The city government’s Public Safety and
Transportation Management Office vowed to tightly monitor the esplanade to
avoid a repeat of the sex scandal.
The lovers were caught at around 8:30 p.m. They were told to put on their
clothes then the police took them to the Mandurriao police station.
“A concerned jogger alerted the policemen posted at the esplanade about the couple in the portion of the esplanade in Barangay Tabucan,” said Police Major Marlon Valencia, Mandurriao police chief.
The man was 29 years old while his girlfriend was 19. Both were residents of this city.
“The esplanade is not a motel,” stressed Valencia.
He also said Mayor Jerry Treñas plans to put additional lampposts at the esplanade to discourage illegal activities there.
As to the arrested couple, Valencia said they would be charged with “grave scandal” which, under Article 200 of the Revised Penal Code, is any act that is highly scandalous as to offend against decency and good custom, and committed in a public place or within the public knowledge or view.
I suppose it was inevitable. Some people will have other ideas about the esplanade other than going there for a jog; it does look ideal for horny people with no budget to check in for short time in some cheap motel.
Going for a jog in the early evening you see a lot of these horny teenagers with raging hormones, their girlfriends in tow, all over the Esplanade, most probably looking for a secluded dim portion to shag.
Meanwhile, those with some extra cash to spare will go somewhere else to have their cheap sex fix.
More excerpts from the Sept. 9, 2019 Panay News issue:
The esplanade sex scandal came a week after it was exposed that the second floor of the city’s Iloilo Terminal Market was being used by pimps for the commercial sex trade.
Spaces were rented out for P200 and most of the prostituted persons there were minors, both girls and boys, Iloilo City Task Force on Moral and Values Formation Nestor Canong told Mayor Treñas.
This is rather kinky. Imagine having sex in the second floor while people below are buying and selling fish and vegetables. The term buying and selling meat has another meaning at the Iloilo Terminal Market a.k.a. “Super”.
Sex with the smell of fish, slaughtered meat and rotten vegetables as ambiance? Quite disgusting to say the least. But then again, some people might actually find it rather sexy.
Why not put sprinklers all over the esplanade and when evening sets in, turn them on till closing time; that way you hit two birds with one stone – one, you water the plants, and two, you drive away the horny couples with raging hormones to shag somewhere else, preferably their own bedrooms. (brotherlouie16@gmail.com/PN)
