Apparently, they both like young boys:
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…
[D]ance 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…
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."
Anyone who has ever read/watched the Kite Runner had some inkling of this. And it’s not just Afghanistan either-- Iranian prison guards (members of the Revolutionary Guard) regularly rape inmates as a form of punishment. How could fundamentalist Muslims, who are typically raging homophobes, allow this? As one Azeri once explained to Evan, it is only homosexual “if you are the one receiving.” What a bunch of creeps.
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…
[D]ance 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…
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."
Anyone who has ever read/watched the Kite Runner had some inkling of this. And it’s not just Afghanistan either-- Iranian prison guards (members of the Revolutionary Guard) regularly rape inmates as a form of punishment. How could fundamentalist Muslims, who are typically raging homophobes, allow this? As one Azeri once explained to Evan, it is only homosexual “if you are the one receiving.” What a bunch of creeps.
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