Afghanistan’s dirty little secret
Posted: September 1, 2010.
Print: San Francisco Chronicle
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, suggesting a loveless life at home. A favored Afghan expression goes: “Women are for children, boys are for pleasure.”








Humans seek pleasure. Religion denies it. Living by the ludicrous laws of these ancient books must end for the world to have any hope at all.
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