"(i) Debt Bondage – refers to the pledging by the debtor of his/her personal
services or labor or those of a person under his/her control as security or
payment for a debt, when the length and nature of services is not clearly
defined or when the value of the services as reasonably assessed is not applied
toward the liquidation of the debt.
"(j) Pornography – refers to any representation, through publication, exhibition,
cinematography, indecent shows, information technology, or by whatever
means, of a person engaged in real or simulated explicit sexual activities or any
representation of the sexual parts of a person for primarily sexual purposes.
"(k) Council – shall mean the Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking created
under Section 20 of this Act."
Section 4. Section 4 of Republic Act No. 9208 is hereby amended to read as follows:
"SEC. 4. Acts of Trafficking in Persons. – It shall be unlawful for any person, natural or
juridical, to commit any of the following acts:
"(a) To recruit, obtain, hire, provide, offer, transport, transfer, maintain, harbor,
or receive a person by any means, including those done under the pretext of
domestic or overseas employment or training or apprenticeship, for the purpose
of prostitution, pornography, or sexual exploitation;
"(b) To introduce or match for money, profit, or material, economic or other
consideration, any person or, as provided for under Republic Act No. 6955, any
Filipino woman to a foreign national, for marriage for the purpose of acquiring,
buying, offering, selling or trading him/her to engage in prostitution,
pornography, sexual exploitation, forced labor, slavery, involuntary servitude or
debt bondage;
"(c) To offer or contract marriage, real or simulated, for the purpose of acquiring,
buying, offering, selling, or trading them to engage in prostitution, pornography,
sexual exploitation, forced labor or slavery, involuntary servitude or debt
bondage;
"(d) To undertake or organize tours and travel plans consisting of tourism
packages or activities for the purpose of utilizing and offering persons for
prostitution, pornography or sexual exploitation;
"(e) To maintain or hire a person to engage in prostitution or pornography;
"(f) To adopt persons by any form of consideration for exploitative purposes or
to facilitate the same for purposes of prostitution, pornography, sexual
exploitation, forced labor, slavery, involuntary servitude or debt bondage;
"(g) To adopt or facilitate the adoption of persons for the purpose of prostitution,
pornography, sexual exploitation, forced labor, slavery, involuntary servitude or
debt bondage;