Originally posted by khushal
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But you're gaging this by only comparing it from 1996-2001; when you ignore the hundreds of years of Afghan history before that so your statement is faulty in how it is gaging it. I say it was prevalent because it's known as a feature of the regional culture, it wasn't like a few people just heard rumours about it. Cultural sayings were established along the lines of "boys are for pleasure, women for breeding"; although that particular statement is Greek, similar statements do exist amongst Pashtuns.
Whether police officers were a bunch of drug addicts, they come from a culture where sodomy with boys was already a taste/norm for them.
It may not be rid of overnight; but one cannot pretend it isn't entrenched within the culture itself.


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