Bacha bazi
Bacha bāzī (Pashto and Persian: بچه بازی, lit. 'boy play'), is a practice in which men (sometimes called bacha baz) buy and keep adolescent boys--also called chai boys or dancing boys--for entertainment and sex. Pederasty is a custom in Afghanistan and often involves sexual slavery and child prostitution by older men of young adolescent males. A study published in 2014 reported that 78% of Afghan men who practice bacha bazi are married to a woman. Some Afghans believe that bacha bazi violates Islamic law on grounds that it is homosexual in nature; others believe that Islam only forbids a man to sexually engage with another man, but not with a boy.