In response to an emerging FUBU culture in the industry

BPO Philippines Factoid 1: All professionals/employees in this industry come from colorful backgrounds (wherein colorful is read as an expletive of your choice).

The reversed working hours (generally) and campus atmosphere create an environment wherein casual sex becomes an outlet for pressure or as an activity to obtain pleasure/gratification or even just a basic human attempt at fulfilling a personal need.

The insular quality of this industry (read as being-no life, co-workers become substitute family, love life is linked to floor) becomes a catalyst. I agree with cHinagrL that this is probably present in other industries as well--it just so happens that for this particular industry--the effects are tragic (and I rarely use this word).

I actually think this is a symptom of this Information Technology driven age. We connect through the media and through the internet so we jump at the chance for actual physical connection.

Communicating over the ether (YM and what have you) allows us wild abandon and the backing to be reckless. So the actual deed becomes an afterthought and before you know it, you're stuck deep.

To answer the original question, casual sex in this industry is rife just because the actual training-to-floor-to-career process speeds up the casual mating cycle.

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HIV Report: Take It With A Slab Of Salt. Other STDs Will Pepper You Blind.

The article is scary but provides little data as to actual statistics and the depth and breadth of the situation. Notice how the article ends extremely weakly, "Generally, stressed out male call center agents can afford to drink alcohol everyday, smoke cigarettes as much as they want and visit brothels every payday because their salary is large enough to support these types of vices (http://philcontactcenter.com/index.php?p=1_6_News)."

While 10 'Call Center' people tested positive for HIV, no statistics where given as to the total number of applicants tested. Articles like this cause unnecessary panic and paranoia.

Prozac&Placebo is right though, dapat matakot tayo.

The actual nail in the coffin is the unreported statistics and data for other Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) within the industry.

Take this scenario:

Visiting client or visiting foreign executive (hereinafter identified as 'Bob') parties in P.Burgos or Quezon Ave. Bob will spend 2-3 weeks in the Philippines to do business reviews, look at potential vendors, meet and greet staff, etc... Bob then gets his hooks into a naive/or not so naive Filipino/a (hereinafter referred to as Joie, para androgynous). Unbeknownst to Bob, he has acquired gonorrhea (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonorrhea) or NGU/UTI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-gonococcal_urethritis). Bob then passes it onto fashionista Joie. As this thread provisions for, that a liberal approach to sexual relations is emerging in the industry, Joie goes ahead and liberates him/herself sexually to relieve work related stress...Joie dies old, blind, and longing for his/her call center glory days 30 years later but not after having passed the disease/s on in a marketing fashion worthy of Herbalife (sic).

How many men in this industry actually buy and use prophylactics instead of just ogling at the Premiere ads with Asia Agcaoili or Jacq Yu?

How many women carry prophylactics as a precaution?

How many more Joies will continue to pursue 'liberated' sexual lifestyles, hopping left and right to nowhere but STD related blindness.

If HIV is salt, then STD as pepper will definitely spice you to death.

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