It is not just girls, either. In highly segregated Muslim societies, predators are not likely to have access to girls unless they have a daughter, but they have access to boys. In Afghanistan bacha bazi means “boy play,” and it refers to a young boy who is being sexually exploited by men. In the 2003 novel The Kite Runner by Afghani American author Khaled Hosseini, the practice of bacha bazi is depicted. In the plot, the protagonist’s half nephew is forced to become a dancing boy and sexual slave to a high-ranking official of the Taliban. The same official had, years earlier, raped the boy’s
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