Sociologists and anthropologists say the problem results from perverse interpretation of Islamic law. Women are simply unapproachable.
Afghan men cannot talk to an unrelated woman until after proposing marriage. Before then, they
can't even look at a woman, except perhaps her feet. Otherwise she is covered, head to ankle.
"How can you fall in love if you can't see her face," 29-year-old Mohammed Daud told reporters. "We can see the boys, so we can tell which are beautiful."
Even after marriage, many men keep their boys, suggesting a loveless life at home. A favored Afghan expression goes:
"Women are for children, boys are for pleasure." Fundamentalist imams, exaggerating a biblical passage on menstruation, teach that women are "
unclean" and therefore distasteful. One married man even asked Cardinalli's team "how his wife could become pregnant," her report said. When that was explained, he "reacted with disgust" and asked, "How could one feel desire to be with a woman, who God has made unclean?"
That helps explain why women are hidden away - and stoned to death if they are perceived to have misbehaved.
Islamic law also forbids homosexuality. But the
pedophiles explain that away. It's not homosexuality, they aver, because they aren't in love with their boys.
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