Men, usually the village elders, will pick the prettiest young boy, and start treating him extra special. They will shower him with affection as well as gifts. Then, there will be a party where the young boy will dress up very fancy and dance for all of the men. I have no idea but, I imagine it is far from a strip tease; still, in these ultra-sexually repressed societies, I imagine it doesn’t take much. As the party winds down, the boy is passed around the men for them to rape. The boy then remains the sexual servant of the village elders until puberty.

U.S. forces were told we could do nothing about the practice, as it wasn’t our job to impose our culture on the Afghan people. I think this example shows that you CAN actually judge two different cultures against one another and determine the superiority of one culture. Surely a culture that normalizes the rape of boys is inferior to the society that criminalizes it in the harshest way. Surely, the culture that practices the ownership of women is inferior to the culture that practices the empowerment of women. And this one may be controversial, but surely the society that values reason, logic, and science is superior to the society that values superstition, dogma, and religion.