Bacha Bazi: Child Sex Slaves and Naked Pedophilia in Afghanistan
When you think of child sex slaves, where do you think of? Thailand? Cambodia? Well it turns out that you can add one more country to that list as child sex slavery in Afghanistan, while only recently becoming known in the West, is rampant.
Known by the name bacha bazi (loosely translated as “playing with boys”), but also sometimes referred to as “chai boys”, or “dancing boys” these are children bought or kidnapped by powerful men. Some of you may have heard of the practice from its reference in the book The Kite Runner and thought that maybe the author was taking artistic license. Trust me, they’re very real. These boys are dressed as women, trained as personal servants, trained to dance and sing for the entertainment of their owner’s friends, used for sex and sometimes loaned or sold for sex as well. These boys are held against their will and are constantly under threat of violence if they try to escape. But when they get too old (their beard grows in), or their owner tires of them, they are tossed aside.
Bacha Bazi: Child Sex Slaves and Naked Pedophilia in Afghanistan
When you think of child sex slaves, where do you think of? Thailand? Cambodia? Well it turns out that you can add one more country to that list as child sex slavery in Afghanistan, while only recently becoming known in the West, is rampant.
Known by the name bacha bazi (loosely translated as “playing with boys”), but also sometimes referred to as “chai boys”, or “dancing boys” these are children bought or kidnapped by powerful men. Some of you may have heard of the practice from its reference in the book The Kite Runner and thought that maybe the author was taking artistic license. Trust me, they’re very real. These boys are dressed as women, trained as personal servants, trained to dance and sing for the entertainment of their owner’s friends, used for sex and sometimes loaned or sold for sex as well. These boys are held against their will and are constantly under threat of violence if they try to escape. But when they get too old (their beard grows in), or their owner tires of them, they are tossed aside.
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