KANDAHAR, AfghanistanIn his 29 years, Mohammed Daud has seen
the faces of perhaps 200 women. A few dozen were family members.
The rest were glimpses stolen when he should not have been looking
and the women were caught without their face-shrouding
burkas.
"How can you fall in love with a girl if you cant see her face?"
he asks.
Daud is unmarried and has sex only with men and boys. But he does
not consider himself homosexual, at least not in the Western sense.
"I like boys, but I like girls better," he says. "Its just that we
cant see the women to see if they are beautiful. But we can see
the boys, and so we can tell which of them is beautiful."
Though rarely acknowledged, the prevalence of sex between Afghan
men is an open secret, one most observant visitors quickly surmise.
Ironically, it is especially true here in Kandahar, which was the
heartland of the puritanical Taliban movement.
http://afghanistanis.tripod.com/id13.html
For those who want yto study further ....search this word : "
HALEKON"
It appears that the Islamics of Afghanistan have a tradition of men
called halekon. The halekon is a younger, beautiful man who is
partnered with an older man. One anti-Taliban told the paper: The
Taliban had halekon, but they kept it secret. They hid their
halekon in their madrasas (religious schools).
