So, you think only women can be sex slaves?

I read a piece in the the New York Times last night about boys recruited by Afghan police to be child soldiers, and even more frequently, sex slaves.

As a victim myself, I can only slightly empathize.  But really, I can't.  Can you imagine being an eight or nine-year-old boy that is kidnapped, forced to be a sex slave and shunned by people around you who don't have human rights themselves?  In the Arabic and Islamic world, pedophilia and homosexuality are far from accepted, but Afghanistan is different.  This sexual trade of adolescent boys isn't anything new.  It's a tradition that has been going on for centuries called bacha bazi.

See this article: http://articles.cnn.com/2009-10-26/world/ctw.afghanistan.sex.trade_1_boys-afghan-dance?_s=PM:WORLD.

The term "bacha bazi" literally means playing with boys.  Sick isn't it?  The only good thing to be said of the exiled Taliban is that they banned this practice, and now that the Taliban is gone, the tradition is running rampant again.

I'm constantly amazed at the cruelty of humanity.  So here's a new one to gasp at.