Blogmocracy in Action
Guest Blogger: Moe Katz
Young Afghan boys are taken from their families, made to dance in women’s costumes, and raped by prominent men in a widespread, centuries-old practice that is disapproved of by Muslim scholars but nonetheless tolerated in that war-torn society. By their later teens, many of these boys will end up as male homosexual prostitutes earning scarce money for their families:
Despite the dangers, they continue to dance, making $30 for the night — a night that usually ends in assault — because they say it is the only thing they know and their only way to make money. There are no opportunities in Afghanistan for people like them.
And once branded as men who danced as women, there is no turning back.
“We are not happy with this line of work,” Jamel said. “We say that it would be better if God could just kill us rather than living like this.”
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Tags: Pedophilia
