Bacha Bazi, or "boy play" as it's known (pronounced bah-cha bah-zee), is the underage sex trafficking phenomenon in Afghanistan. There is just no other way to describe what is portrayed in PBS's Frontline documentary, where young boys are kidnapped or sold by their poor families into sex slavery. To dress up their horrific actions, the men involved in this trade will often insist these boys are merely dressing up in women's clothing and dancing in front of groups of paying men. But these boys are subjected to more than that. They are forced to have sex with these adult men. That they are killed if they don't comply. And what's perhaps even more disgusting than their actions is their blatant openness about it.
What Frontline and reporter Najibullah Quraishi is showing us is Afghan men admitting on camera, and then displaying their terrorizing "business," what they are doing to little boys. Adult men, with the financial means, pay to rape them.
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