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Friday, September 3, 2010

Men Keep Their Boys in Afghanista. You Think the Catholic Church is Loose about Pedophiles, Read Here, from SF Gate 8.29.10

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(Article in San Francisco Chronicle Aug 29, 2010. reports:)

For centuries, Afghan men have taken boys, roughly 9 to 15 years old, as lovers. Some research suggests that half the Pashtun tribal members in Kandahar and other southern towns are bacha baz, the term for an older man with a boy lover. Literally it means "boy player." The men like to boast about it...."
"Having a boy has become a custom for us," Enayatullah, a 42-year-old in Baghlan province, told a Reuters reporter.
"Whoever wants to show off should have a boy."
Sociologists and anthropologists say the problem results from perverse interpretation of Islamic law. Women are simply unapproachable. Afghan men cannot talk to an unrelated woman until after proposing marriage. Before then, they can't even look at a woman, except perhaps her feet. Otherwise she is covered, head to ankle.
"How can you fall in love if you can't see her face," 29-year-old Mohammed Daud told reporters. "We can see the boys, so we can tell which are beautiful."
Even after marriage, many men keep their boys.

(Continue reading: Afghanistan's dirty Little Secret at SFGate)

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