Dir: Jamie Doran, Najibullah Quraishi, Mike Healy
2010
***
The Dancing Boys Of Afghanistan certainly made for cringe-worthy viewing. Aside from the obvious sexual denial of the viewers, whose hypercritical views contradict everything they apparently stand for, there is also an age issue. Fine, they're homosexual homophobes who have convinced themselves they're not homosexual and that it is part of their culture. I have no problem with that, people live in denial in all walks of life, only they can't help themselves with that. The problem is that most of these boys are young and are dressed provocatively and many are abused from a young age and the people doing it behind the word tradition. It's important that people remember that this is not a subject about homosexuality, it's about paedophilia. It's certainly not about dancing.
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