Kandahar’s Lightly Veiled Homosexual Habits

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Los Angeles Times, April 3, 2002
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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-000023881apr03.story

Society: Restrictions on relations with women lead to greater prevalence of liaisons between men, a professor says.

By Maura Reynolds, Times Staff Writer

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan—In his 29 years, Mohammed Daud has seen the faces of perhaps 200 women. A few dozen were family members. The rest were glimpses stolen when he should not have been looking and the women were caught without their face-shrouding burkas.

"How can you fall in love with a girl if you can’t see her face?" he asks.

Daud is unmarried and has sex only with men and boys. But he does not consider himself homosexual, at least not in the Western sense. "I like boys, but I like girls better," he says. "It’s just that we can’t see the women to see if they are beautiful. But we can see the boys, and so we can tell which of them is beautiful."

Daud, a motorbike repairman who asked that only his two first names and not his family name be used, has a youthful face, a jaunty black mustache and a post-Taliban cleanshaven chin. As he talks, his knee bounces up and down, an involuntary sign of his embarrassment.

"These are hard questions you are asking," he says. "We don’t usually talk about such things."

Though rarely acknowledged, the prevalence of sex between Afghan men is an open secret, one most observant visitors quickly surmise. Ironically, it is especially true here in Kandahar, which was the heartland of the puritanical Taliban movement.

It might seem odd to a Westerner that such a sexually repressive society is marked by heightened homosexual activity. But Justin Richardson, a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University, says such thinking is backward—it is precisely the extreme restrictions on sexual relations with women that lead to greater prevalence of the behavior.

"In some Muslim societies where the prohibition against premarital heterosexual intercourse is extremely high—higher than that against sex between men—you will find men having sex with other males not because they find them most attractive of all but because they find them most attractive of the limited options available to them," Richardson says.


http://www.sodomylaws.org/world/afghanistan/afnews009.htm

[newman]

A nurse who worked in Saudi told me the prostitutes there were all young men!

If a woman does that, she's beheaded or stoned but the Saudis turn a blind eye to men doing it!! Muslims are SICK!!!

[ftf]

A nurse who worked in Saudi told me the prostitutes there were all young men!

If a woman does that, she's beheaded or stoned but the Saudis turn a blind eye to men doing it!! Muslims are SICK!!!

Women can be prostitutes under Islam, they just have to have an Imam handy to marry the woman to the customer and then divorce them afterwards, they actually do this in muslim countries.

[newman]

A nurse who worked in Saudi told me the prostitutes there were all young men!

If a woman does that, she's beheaded or stoned but the Saudis turn a blind eye to men doing it!! Muslims are SICK!!!

Women can be prostitutes under Islam, they just have to have an Imam handy to marry the woman to the customer and then divorce them afterwards, they actually do this in muslim countries.

Have you ever seen a religion that can justify, whoring, rape, child abuse and murder and SANCTIFY it like this vile doctrine?

islam just boggles the mind with it's evil.

[Mstislav]

That is disgusting!!