The "chaste and glorious" love of the Pushtoon version of Islam. Kuni Bacha!

Afghan Men Struggle With Sexual Identity, Study Finds

An unclassified study from a military research unit in southern Afghanistan details how homosexual behavior is unusually common among men in the large ethnic group known as Pashtuns — though they seem to be in complete denial about it.

As if U.S. troops and diplomats didn’t have enough to worry about in trying to understand Afghan culture, a new report suggests an entire region in the country is coping with a sexual identity crisis.

An unclassified study from a military research unit in southern Afghanistan details how homosexual behavior is unusually common among men in the large ethnic group known as Pashtuns — though they seem to be in complete denial about it.

The study, obtained by Fox News, found that Pashtun men commonly have sex with other men, admire other men physically, have sexual relationships with boys and shun women both socially and sexually — yet they completely reject the label of “homosexual.” The research was conducted as part of a longstanding effort to better understand Afghan culture and improve Western interaction with the local people.

The research unit, which was attached to a Marine battalion in southern Afghanistan, acknowledged that the behavior of some Afghan men has left Western forces “frequently confused.”

The report details the bizarre interactions a U.S. Army medic and her colleagues had with Afghan men in the southern province of Kandahar.

In one instance, a group of local male interpreters had contracted gonorrhea anally but refused to believe they could have contracted it sexually — “because they were not homosexuals.”

Apparently, according to the report, Pashtun men interpret the Islamic prohibition on homosexuality to mean they cannot “love” another man — but that doesn’t mean they can’t use men for “sexual gratification.”

The group of interpreters who had contracted gonorrhea joked in the camp that they actually got the disease by “mixing green and black tea.” But since they refused to heed the medics’ warnings, many of them re-contracted the disease after receiving treatment.

The U.S. army medic also told members of the research unit that she and her colleagues had to explain to a local man how to get his wife pregnant.

This lovely young girl is unclean? According to the Pushtoon version of Islam she is. Amazing!

The report said: “When it was explained to him what was necessary, he reacted with disgust and asked, ‘How could one feel desire to be with a woman, who God has made unclean, when one could be with a man, who is clean? Surely this must be wrong.’”

The Pashtun populations are concentrated in the southern and eastern parts of the country. The Human Terrain Team that conducted the research is part of a military effort to learn more about local populations.

The report also detailed a disturbing practice in which older “men of status” keep young boys on hand for sexual relationships. One of the country’s favorite sayings, the report said, is “women are for children, boys are for pleasure.”

The report concluded that the widespread homosexual behavior stems from several factors, including the “severe segregation” of women in the society and the “prohibitive” cost of marriage.

Though U.S. troops are commonly taught in training for Afghanistan that the “effeminate characteristics” of Pashtun men are “normal” and not an indicator of homosexuality, the report said U.S. forces should not “dismiss” the unique version of homosexuality that is actually practiced in the region “out of desire to avoid western discomfort.”

Otherwise, the report said, Westerners could “risk failing to comprehend an essential social force underlying Pashtun culture.”

Mullah Omar ~ Boy Bugger Extraordinaire

Fortunately, I work in a predominantly Tajik area.  The Tajiks call these little boy buggers “Qandaharis.”  Because they say that all of the men down in the Southeast love to capture little boys and keep them for sex (I cleaned that up.  They’re much more graphic about it).  It’s pretty much common knowledge here.  The Pashtuns may be in denial about it, but, the Tajiks aren’t and  make fun of them all the time.

The call them all kuni bacha’a which pretty much translates to “boy buggers.”  lol

Not news to me.  lol

The Egyptians say the same thing about the Arabs of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.  Isn’t Saddam famous for having made a similar statement about Saudi Arabia.

Aside from that, anal sex is pretty common in the lands of Islam because of the importance of female virginity.  The vagina must be pristine with hymen intact at the time of  marriage.  Apparently, though, the anal cavity and sphincter muscle can worn to hell and back.  lol

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What a strange bunch.  It’s Arab culture.  The Pashtuns are more heavily influenced by the Arabs.  The Tajiks are influenced more by China, Asia and Russia.

I’m going to show this to my terps.  They’ll laugh their butts off.

Of course, they’re all Tajik.

Here’s an interesting link for additional information.