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in public or house or even inside the jails. The male children could be kidnapped from anywhere;
it can be from schools, outside parks, etc. After kidnapping, these children are then sold to the
rich and powerful men of Afghanistan. Children abused to gang rape usually die. Often, the
families of the young male children sell them to the high rank men of the society in order to feed
their family. None of the citizen understands the emotional and physical torture that a child has
to grow through for the entire of his life time while being subjected to such a kind of an activity.
After the realization by the male children that their life is going to get served like this, the
children demand money and clothes and vehicles and the owners have to fulfill these demands in
order to keep them as captives. The sexual exploitation of male children in Afghanistan is like
buying and selling of commodities. The children are then forced to dance and have sex with
multiple men. The child could be killed or harmed by the owner if the child does not listen and
obey all the instructions given to him by his owner. Maximum of the children subjected to
physical abuse; end up being traumatized for their entire life. Maximum number of these
children usually belongs to poor families, who are kept as bodyguards or servants or sex
providers by the high classes men of Afghanistan. This was quoted by the afghan independent
human right commission report in the year 2014. The male children are often used as women
dancers and are forced to dance at wedding ceremonies. If permitted by the owners, these
children are allowed to be taken by other high profile men to guest houses and gang raped at the
end of the ceremony (Newman et al, 2011). Families in North Afghanistan are generally
concerned regarding their male children as the practice of Bacha-Bazi has reached at peak. The
male children of Afghanistan are not safe since more than two decades. The practice of Bacha-
Bazi became a profitable business in Afghanistan after the decline of Taliban regime in the year
2001. The local commanders as well as the high profiled men quote that the women are present
in their society to give birth to the infants and the male children are present to give them sexual
pleasures. The powerful men of Afghanistan often introduce their captives to their wives and
own children and find no shame in doing so. The wives cannot create any object or raise any
question on their husbands having child male partners. A sixteen years old boy was forced to
commit suicide in the year 2015 after being raped repeatedly by Taliban soldiers. The name of
the boy was recognized as Bilal. In order to put an end to such activities involved with Bacha-
Bazi, the governing bodies of Afghanistan and the local police officers have to start acting on
such situations and take legal actions against all the powerful and rich men practicing such
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phenomena. The neighbor countries must also come forward in order to support and save the
male children of Afghanistan.
2.3. The Four Factor Approach
The act of pedophilic rape of boys in Afghanistan is a big social challenge in the country
however, the Afghanistan government till date does not have enough policies to deal with this
social evil more over this issue is hardly raised or discussed among policy makers in the country.
To make matters worse social taboo on sexuality in Afghanistan makes it difficult to have a
detailed knowledge and accurate information about this crime hence further worsening the
situation. However, in this section it would be important to study the actual behavior of adults
that encourage them to engage in such crimes against children. The four factors approach studied
by David Finkelghor explores the reason as to why adults become sexually aroused by children
and why do they choose immature children to satiate their sexual needs when alternative options
are available to them. The four factors approach studies the four factors that help in highlighting
the cause behind sexual abuse of boy child. The study seems to segregate four different
categories that help in understanding this pedophilic act. The categories are emotional
congruence, sexual arousal, blockage and disinhibition. The study of these factors however,
would help to analyze how and why adults do get attracted to children for sexual favors.
2.3.1. Sexual congruence
highlights the emotional needs of an adult that encourage them relate their sexual needs to a
child, blockage factor on the other hand would help in analyzing why other alternatives for
satiating sexual needs of adult men are not available. Sexual arousal would help in discussing
how a child can arouse sexual feelings in an adult and last but not the least the last factor
disinhibition would help in studying why normal prohibitions do not prevent adults from
engaging in such an act. Hence Bacha-Bazi in Afghanistan would be studied across these four
factors and these factors would help in analyzing the situation in details. Sexual congruence
makes the middle aged individuals who wants to fulfill their sexual needs develops a feeling that
their sexual congruity would meet their values and align by the small children and if they not
have find so the child is made prone to dangerous torture and this children intends to kill
themselves or intend to attempt suicide.