Mr. Rients
U.S History
17 January 2019
Response
"Stolen Boys: Life after Sexual slavery in Afghanistan". This article was extremely heart wrenching. Reading about these boys lives, how they had to dance for men, how they had too dress up as women, not because they were transgender, but to show masculinity is unbelievable to me. There's different sections in the article, explaining in more detail about their lives and how their family reacts to the situation. How some family's have to get up and vanish so they don't go after them if their sons run away from there keeper, its heart breaking.
Its crazy knowing that these kind of things happen still to this day. Bacha Bazi, or "boy play". Then for the ones that get away, the recovery from their sexually abused childhood. Like it said in the post, they "disregarded him" after the boy grew facial hair, they only want boys, not men.
The life of these boys is harsh and cruel. They're forced to do something they love to do and in the end they get sexually abused. Its a hideous act of pedophilia. These young boys are forced to dance for older men, it's not the dancing that they hate, its what that's coming after they are made to dance.
In the end, this article really makes me feel for the boys in Afghanistan that have to suffer this type of situation.
