Afghanistan’s subculture of paedophilia is among the nation’s untold shames

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With all the looming withdrawal of Nato troops and a persistent insurgent danger, Afghanistan is in a precarious position. Innumerable tragedies have actually beleaguered rural Afghans through the entire previous decades of conflict — perpetual violence, oppression of females, and crushing poverty have actually all added towards the Hobbesian nature of life into the Afghan countryside.

Whilst the Afghan federal government has had the opportunity to handle several of those issues because the Taliban’s ouster in 2001, archaic social traditions and deep-seated sex norms have held most of rural Afghanistan in a medieval state of purgatory. Possibly the many tragedy that is deplorable the one that has actually grown more rampant since 2001, may be the training of bacha bazi — sexual companionship between effective men and their adolescent child conscripts.

This occurrence presents an operational system of sex reversal in Afghanistan. Whereas rural Pashtun culture stays mostly misogynistic and male-dominated because of deeply-ingrained Islamic values, teenage men are becoming the things of lustful attraction and relationship for many of the most extremely effective guys within the Afghan countryside. Lees verder →