By Daisy CL
Mandap
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| Tarlac Girl in 2nd part of the video |
It
is not clear who uncovered it and how it spread, but a three-part sex video
featuring a woman who claims to be from Tarlac and works as a domestic helper
in Hong Kong has been keeping the Filipino community here abuzz for the past
several weeks.
The
story has gotten bigger in the telling that in the latest incarnation, either
Tarlac Girl or her husband, despondent because of the scandal, had committed
suicide.
Another
story has it that the woman in the video was the unfortunate Jennifer Laude, a
transgender who was killed two years ago by U.S. serviceman Joseph Scott
Pemberton, whom she had picked up from a bar in Olangapo City, Philippines.
Neither
story appears to be true. Though there is a resemblance between Tarlac Girl and Laude, it is not striking. Besides, case records show Pemberin got enraged when he learned once in bed that Laude was a transgender. Tarlac Girl, on the other hand, is all-woman.
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| The first part of the video is clearly labeled ' PorneQ' and "AsianSexDiary" |
The
new sex scandal brings to mind the “Mare-Pare” VCD which sold like hotcakes
among Filipinos in Hong Kong in 2008 because it purportedly showed an OFW in
Hong Kong making love to her “kumpare” who had stopped over on his way back to
work in Saudi Arabia.
On
closer inspection of the illicit tape, however, many formed the opinion that
the performers were both porn actors because they showed no inhibitions about what
they were doing, and even gave their best angles to the camera.
The
same appears to be true for the sex video scandal that has rocked the community
in recent weeks.
In
the first part of the video, the woman is shown coyly telling an unseen partner
who was filming her, that she worked as a domestic helper for an Indian family
in Hong Kong. The video ends after the fully-endowed woman had disrobed. In the
second video, she is seen having sex with the still-unseen man.
Both
episodes had many members of the Filcom debating whether her claim to being
a HK OFW was true.
Not
a few migrant workers believed her, and began spreading the word, while
berating the woman for giving shame to their profession.
But
the more astute viewers immediately noticed that the woman’s smooth skin and well-preserved
body could not have been that of a housemaid’s. Besides, she looked all glanmed up for the part, up to her bikini underwear, when the script called for a chance sexual encounter with the hidden filmmaker.
Another
observer who has a background in filmmaking told The SUN that the high quality
of the video clips indicated that they were made by a professional porn movie maker.
As
for “Tarlac Girl”, the analyst said that she was also not new to performing before
a camera. The one filming her was no neophyte, either.
“Definitely she was performing in front
of a quality camera. Kung DH man siya talaga, she got paid to appear in that
scene and she agreed to do it,” said the expert.
The
third part which surfaced only recently, actually a prequel to the two parts, seems
to support these theories. In it, the woman is shown being approached by the still
unseen camera man, who asked her to pose for pictures, then invited her to his
hotel room. She immediately said yes, then without asking where they were
headed, led the man into the hotel.
More
tellingly, the video had the words “PorneQ” and “AsianSexDiary” imprinted on
it, indicating that it was, indeed, produced as a porn video.
Recently,
someone who read the debates on Facebook said she knew the woman, as they had
worked together at a casino in Clark Freeport in Pampanga. The source said the
woman, who was originally from Tarlac, resigned after getting pregnant. She was
no longer in touch with any of their work mates.
Meanwhile,
there has been a surfeit of home videos showing plainer looking Filipinas engaging
in sex in less fancy settings, in the wake of the buzz over the porn movie.
They
include one who did it while standing up, almost fully clothed, with a South
Asian male who obviously took delight in showing his face to the camera. Again,
there is talk – unconfirmed as in the case of Tarlac Girl - that the Filipina
is a domestic worker in Hong Kong.
Whatever
may be the truth in these cases, Filipinas are best advised against making the
mistake of jumping into the fray.
A
number of cases referred to the Consulate in recent months involved Filipina
workers being threatened by their erstwhile lovers with having their sex videos
posted online, if they didn’t pay up. In most of these cases, the women knew they
were being filmed by their lovers.
