A Dirty Little Secret - The "Boy Toys" of Afghanistan

This is a form of institutionalized child sex slavery that we hear little about. It is called "bacha bazi" or "boy play" and in countries like Afghanistan it is not only acceptable it is a culturally sanctioned status symbol...every male leader must have his "boy toy" or several of them. (http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/22/asia/afghanistan-boy-abuse-us-military/index.html) We read every day about the horrible plague of rape and sexual abuse of little girls, which, according to the UN is sadly on the rise, "The 2014 Global Report on Trafficking in Persons, produced by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, also found that the proportion of children among victims appeared to be rising." (NY Times 11/24/14) Why is it that we don't hear about the sexual abuse of boys which is widespread throughout the Middle East and Africa' The answer is simple...this is a dirty little secret that is best kept in the dark., That may be true for the military but it is NOT true for the little boys whose lives are destroyed. When the church sex scandals started to unfold some years ago, it was mostly boys who were the victims, and again, for decades, this was swept under the rug...a dirty little secret. M
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