If you wish to see the underbelly of anachronistic Muslim patriarchy, watch PBS-Frontline's Dancing Boys of Afghanistan on line.
In a world obsessed with pedophile and pederast Catholic priests, it is interesting to see the roots of the problem magnified in Afghan society, which is living centuries behind ours in economic and cultural development. Examining the victimization of poor boys and girls which exists in Afghanistan is time travel. These abuses were omnipresent in the West through the 19th century. Poverty with high birth rates provides the playing fields for abusers, usually adult males, heterosexual, bisexual or homosexual.
The repression of sexual feelings, encouraged by religion, messes up human beings. This is no news flash or fringe speculation. Freud spent much of his career trying to figure out how to fix the problem. Subsequently, the Women's Movement and Gay Liberation offered a solution to millions. Now, in these reactionary, post-HIV times, exploited by the Reaganites, Thatcherites and their ilk, we begin to fight the battle for liberation all over again, globally and at great cost.
