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...I was just introduced-- verbally thank goodness --to the Afghan "alternative life style choice" of Man Love Thursdays. I had heard this bandied about infrequently, but thought it was just typical miltary gay bashing humor (Oh! The horrah!) brought about by two different cultures thrown together in uncomfortable circumstances. You know, where Middle Eastern men frequently hold hands in public, kiss each other on the cheek, stand very close to one another, that sort of thing.

But here in Afghanistan, the Pashtuns have a slightly different spin on the whole Islamic separation of the sexes thing. See, their Thursdays are like our Saturdays where you go out, raise a little hell, then head to the local mosque to beg Allah for forgiveness or whatever, maybe do a little head chopping off for a sacrifice or something.

Anyway, it is culturally acceptable for men to have sex with prepubescent boys and men up to the age of 29, which is when they become "men" as is considered the norm for them in terms of responsibilities and such. The guidleline is women are for reproduction, and boys are for fun. And it is usually done on Thursdays, hence the term "Man Love Thursday" where the joke goes, someone has to wear the dress-- the tradtional garb of a long shirt which extends down to the knees and loose pants underneath.

Like I said, I thought it was just fiction only to discover, no, homosexuality is rampant in Afghanistan, only to them it's not homosexuality because they aren't "men," just creatures with male organs and, apparently, pliable anuses. It's the whole in prison thing where dudes can cornhole some other dude but not be a **** because he was doing the deed, not taking it-- like THAT makes any sense. Only this is on a national scale.

Wow. Just... wow. Welcome to Islam, folks. That's the kind of perversity you get when you do the whole Muhammhed thing I guess.

Totem

No if, its true. Getting deployed to be a cage kicker tends to suck. The smell of Pine-sole and **** tends to get traumatizing after nine months. Thank whatever deity is popular this week for not having to do a second deployment of that.

troll harder.

Well, to be fair dude, you've seen their women.

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Edited, Oct 19th 2010 1:15pm by Bardalicious

Hey, I keep trying to tell you I'm a pretty sensitive guy, Bard. Maybe a few interior design classes, a salsa dance class, and some new fabulous jewels will make me appreciate the more limp wristed side of masculinity better. I'm giving it my best shot. Just not my best money shot. Yet.

Totem

Umm, I dunno about you, but 28 year old men don't qualify as victims of pedophilia or pedastry in my book. We're talking about a 23 year span of buggering, rogering, and pelvic thrusts here. I suppose if you are inclined to that flavor, that's a cornholeicopia of a$$ flesh to choose from. I mean, 5 year olds to 28 year old chocolate starfish-- there is something there for the discriminating homosexual. And it's just a cultural difference, right? We can't be placing our Western/American morals and Christian values on other non-MTVed nations.

Diversity! I loves it!

Totem

/nods
It's true. And it kind of puts the whole all-cultures-are-equal-thing in a fresh perspective, doesn't it? Mind you, this is not something localized, but is a cross-border issue rife inthis region of the world.

And, while I haven't been able to confirm this by any means, in the more remote regions incestual pedophiliac homosexuality is supposedly routinely practiced. Now that covers just about all the bases, doesn't it? And after flying over these areas, I can easily imagine most, if not all of these remote villages haven't seen an outsider for generations.

Totem

Wait! Are you saying that Western Christian types don't bugger little boys (and girls) on a monotonously regular basis? And havn't done throughout history?

I suppose though, that its yet another thing that people can use to justify to themselves why these savages need to 'liberated' and taught the correct way to live even if it means that they must be occupied, imprisoned and bombed.




Be very careful with those gems dude. Unless you know about gems, I can almost guarantee you is getting ripped off.

Edited, Oct 19th 2010 6:55pm by paulsol

They were mined at gunpoint by five year olds. Thank God for different cultures!

I wonder if the Afghans got it from the greek or the other way around.

Yeah. That was largely tongue-in-cheek.

I know. Thats why I answered with a dismissive riposte 8)