{"id":147957,"date":"2025-08-27T13:00:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T11:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=147957"},"modified":"2025-08-27T13:00:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T11:00:48","slug":"dancing-boys-of-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=147957","title":{"rendered":"Dancing Boys of Afghanistan\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"898\" height=\"398\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2025-08-27-at-14.00.00.png?resize=898%2C398&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-147958\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2025-08-27-at-14.00.00.png?w=898&amp;ssl=1 898w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2025-08-27-at-14.00.00.png?resize=768%2C340&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 898px) 100vw, 898px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"922\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T1LGTnOF5yg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What a wonderful world we\u2019ve built\u2014until you stop and wonder just how much lower humanity can still sink!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan\u00a0is a 2010 documentary film produced by Clover Films and directed by Afghan journalist\u00a0Najibullah Quraishi\u00a0about the practice of\u00a0bacha bazi\u00a0in\u00a0Afghanistan. The 52-minute documentary premiered in the UK at the\u00a0Royal Society of Arts\u00a0on March 29, 2010,[1]\u00a0and aired on\u00a0PBS Frontline\u00a0in the United States on April 20. Bacha bazi, also known as\u00a0bacch\u00e1\u00a0(from the\u00a0Persian\u00a0bacheh\u00a0\u0628\u0686\u0647\u200c, literally &#8220;playing with boys&#8221; in Persian,\u00a0Pashto\u00a0and\u00a0Hindustani), is a form of\u00a0sexual slavery\u00a0and\u00a0child prostitution in which\u00a0prepubescent\u00a0and adolescent boys are sold to wealthy or powerful men for entertainment and sexual activities. <strong>This business thrives in\u00a0Afghanistan, where many men keep dancing boys as status symbols. The practice is illegal under Afghan law.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a wonderful world we\u2019ve built\u2014until you stop and wonder just how much lower humanity can still sink! The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan\u00a0is a 2010 documentary film produced by Clover Films and directed by Afghan journalist\u00a0Najibullah Quraishi\u00a0about the practice of\u00a0bacha bazi\u00a0in\u00a0Afghanistan. The 52-minute documentary premiered in the UK at the\u00a0Royal Society of Arts\u00a0on March 29, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":147960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[193],"tags":[1449],"class_list":["post-147957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos","tag-documentary"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dancing-boys-of-afghanistan.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":139063,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=139063","url_meta":{"origin":147957,"position":0},"title":"The Chrysalis (NSFW)","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"22\/07\/2021","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/576943519 \u201cIt felt like stepping into a totally different world and I remember my first time going up on stage and literally shaking. 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