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Show The Salt Lake Tribune WORLD Sunday, Al5 April 2002_ AfghanistanHolds Veil rest?” Zafer asks. Richardson, the psychiatry professor, says it Teasons to seek solace in the beds — or fields or storage rooms — of other men. Over Homosexual Ways would be wrongto call Afghan men homosexual. “As for me, if I find someone and see she is beautiful, | will send my mother overtoher” to ask for her hand in marriage, Daud say just waiting to see her.” since their decision to have sex with men is not a @ From previous page TT the hospital and. under the assumption that jod had spared him. was sent to prison. He served § months and fled to Pakistan Many 2ccuse the Taliban of hypocrisy on the issue of homosexuality. i commander, who js rumored to keep two halekon himself. “They hid their halekon in their madrasas,” or religious It's not only religious authorities who de scribe homosexual sex as common among the Mohammed Nasetn Zafar, a professor at Kan- dahar Medical College, estimates that about 50 percent ofthe city’s male residents have sex with men or boys at some point in their lives. He says the prime age at which boys are attractivete men is from 12 to 16. The adolescents sometimes medical problems, grow up, the by marrying them off to their daugghters,” the doctor says. Zafar cites a local mullah whom he caught once using the examination table in the doctor’s one-room clinic for sex with a younger man. this is our mullah, what can you say for the reflection of what Westerners call gender ident) ty. Instead, he compares them to prison inmates. They have sex with men primarily becausethey find themselves in a situation where men are more available as sex partners than are women. “Tt is something they do,” he notes, “not something theyare.” Daud, the motorbike repairman, would concur that the segregation of women lies at the heart of the matter. Daud says his first sexual experience with a mari occurred when he was 20, about the time he and her family. For many men, the bill tops $5,000 — suchan exorbitant sum in this im; countrythat some men, including Daud, are dissuaded from even trying. “I wouldlike to get married, but the economic situation in our country makes it hard,” Daud says. Daud talked about his sex life only in private and after being assured that no photographs would be taken and onlyhis first two names would be used. “T have relations with different boys — some for six months, some for one month. Some are with me for six years,” he says. “The problem is also money. if you want to have a relationship with a boy, you haveto buythings for him. That’s whyit’s not bad for the boy.” Daud thinks if coeducation returns and the dress code for women eases, men will have fewer SUPER SPECIAL Crib-size Quilts only $19.99.500 5 patterns to choose from. While supplies last! Our SearchYorHappiness: An irritationto ‘Understand The ChurchofJesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Hardcover$11.95, Softcover $8.95, Bock on taps $13.85 withourCouncits: isarning io Minister Together dn the Church and in the Family Hardcover $14.95, Book'on tape $19.95 ike me) 2 Wells Fargo Portfolio Werle ass aes eles it gives you PE poe pears a nterest-bearing checkin J accoun ray arden (ae ae comity aeaeOh aa ese gL Deseret Book. deseretbook.com and h a competitive er F TIBVeUia-leco Un cw- lire! jt more about |