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[–]EternalSunset[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

It's an old practice from the persians and it happens in some rare cases on those other countries too. I honestly doubt it happened too much under sunni rule by Saddam Hussein, but the US overthrew him and then started working with some of the worst elements of the shia to rule the country, hence the reason why the soldiers were told to be quiet about it (the same thing happened in Afghanistan as well).

There is also a documentary about bacha bazi in pakistan.

There is a very large population of Pashto people who live in Pakistan, so I wouldn't be surprised if it's just the same people doing the same thing.

[–]Canbot 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I don't see how you can claim it is rare when so many soldiers come back and say it is normal there. Aparently there is a saying that girls are for marriage and boys are for fun.

In any case you could say homosexuality is also rare. How is rare pedophilia better that rare homosexuality?

And how can you say that sexual degeneracy is a symptom of opulance when it happens in the shitiest places on earth?

[–]EternalSunset[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Unchecked degeneracy is a symptom of hedonistic societies. Humans are descendant from monkeys and there is a lot of bad tendencies in our nature, I never denied any of this, the point is that traditional and non-decadent societies are able to keep the more decadent traits at bay. Yeah, the boy fucking thing is awful and decadent and disgusting, but I don't buy that it's as common as you are trying to portrait it, specially outside of Afghanistan, specially from claims of soldier whose job was to occupy the country and fight against those people.

[–]at_finn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Technically we are descended from apes not monkeys.