The Philippines is one of the countries that have the lowest age of consent. Last year we hit the streets of Manila to find out whether ordinary citizens actually know the age of consent in the Philippines. Since we conducted this interview, a bill that seeks to raise the age of sexual consent in the Philippines to 16 years old was approved in late August by the House Committees on Revision of Laws and Welfare of Children. And just this month, senators are again pushing to raise the age of conse