Tag: Boy Rape
Afghanistan’s dirty little secret
Joel Brinkley September 1, 2010.
Print: San Francisco Chronicle
For centuries, Afghan men have taken boys, roughly 9 to 15 years old, as lovers. In Kandahar, population about 500,000, and other towns, dance parties are a popular, often weekly, pastime. Young boys dress up as girls, wearing makeup and bells on their feet, and dance for a dozen or more leering middle-aged men who throw money at them and then take them home. A recent State Department report called “dancing boys” a “widespread, culturally sanctioned form of male rape.”
Sociologists and anthropologists say the problem results from perverse interpretation of Islamic law.
