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	<title>Comments on: Afghanistan&#8217;s Male Soldiers Are Having Sex With Other Guys. But Don&#8217;t Call Them Homos</title>
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		<title>By: hafeezkhan</title>
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		<dc:creator>hafeezkhan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>if any one sayng like ths k pashton tribe hve soft heart againt gays fuck up his mothr if pashton waz nt preznt in afghanistan afg wil b nt afg .afg name wil b change by usa</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>if any one sayng like ths k pashton tribe hve soft heart againt gays fuck up his mothr if pashton waz nt preznt in afghanistan afg wil b nt afg .afg name wil b change by usa</p>
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		<title>By: Cyrus</title>
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		<dc:creator>Cyrus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:53:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In Islamic cultures the word &quot;gay&quot; equals to and effeminate man. 
A masculine man cannot possibly be gay -per definition. Having receptive sex with a man does not necessarily mean that you are/ become effeminate. If you do, then you are &quot;gay&quot;. If not, you are and remain a man. In which case you may even marry and have children. 
So the Pashtuns do not live in a state of denial, as many readers think. It is just a matter of definition.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In Islamic cultures the word &#8220;gay&#8221; equals to and effeminate man.<br />
A masculine man cannot possibly be gay -per definition. Having receptive sex with a man does not necessarily mean that you are/ become effeminate. If you do, then you are &#8220;gay&#8221;. If not, you are and remain a man. In which case you may even marry and have children.<br />
So the Pashtuns do not live in a state of denial, as many readers think. It is just a matter of definition.</p>
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		<title>By: Seth</title>
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		<dc:creator>Seth</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 05:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-264252&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;B Damion&lt;/a&gt;: Actually their mentality and behavior is the same as it was with men thousands of years ago. It was normal for men to do sexual things with other men, but they wouldn&#039;t be considered &quot;gay&quot; as we think of it today, because they had wives and such, and because they were &quot;aggressive&quot; in the sex act with the guys they slept with; they&#039;d be considered &quot;more manly&quot;. The passive in such acts however were often ridiculed and definitely not seen as men.

Then you had men, who were intimate with other men, but because they were in love, and would see each other as equals; they&#039;d never engage in penetration sex- they&#039;d do something else- which we today call &quot;frot&quot;- but all cultures had a word for it which always translates to &quot;rubbing of the genitals&quot;. That type of sex between men was seen as &quot;ideal&quot; and &quot;manly&quot; and was always done among the warrior/fighter/soldier class. Only women, and men lower in status socially (slave boy), were to be penetrated.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@<a class="atr_link" href="#comment-264252" rel="nofollow">B Damion</a>: Actually their mentality and behavior is the same as it was with men thousands of years ago. It was normal for men to do sexual things with other men, but they wouldn&#8217;t be considered &#8220;gay&#8221; as we think of it today, because they had wives and such, and because they were &#8220;aggressive&#8221; in the sex act with the guys they slept with; they&#8217;d be considered &#8220;more manly&#8221;. The passive in such acts however were often ridiculed and definitely not seen as men.</p>
<p>Then you had men, who were intimate with other men, but because they were in love, and would see each other as equals; they&#8217;d never engage in penetration sex- they&#8217;d do something else- which we today call &#8220;frot&#8221;- but all cultures had a word for it which always translates to &#8220;rubbing of the genitals&#8221;. That type of sex between men was seen as &#8220;ideal&#8221; and &#8220;manly&#8221; and was always done among the warrior/fighter/soldier class. Only women, and men lower in status socially (slave boy), were to be penetrated.</p>
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		<title>By: pankaj</title>
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		<dc:creator>pankaj</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 09:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh</p>
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		<title>By: khalil</title>
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		<dc:creator>khalil</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2011 13:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>in most asian cultures if there are gays they try to hide it because they live among comunity and what comunity thinks about you thats what you are. if you are guy in there openly no one invites you or have friendship with you. 
thats why its ends after marriage.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>in most asian cultures if there are gays they try to hide it because they live among comunity and what comunity thinks about you thats what you are. if you are guy in there openly no one invites you or have friendship with you.<br />
thats why its ends after marriage.</p>
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		<title>By: khalil</title>
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		<dc:creator>khalil</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2011 12:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>hey guys its really interesting topic.
i am an afghan myself. Even though i wasnt living in afghanistan for long time, I eard rumors about pushtun tribe having soft heart for boys.
in other part of afghanistan there are terms like bacha bazi( dansing boys)
i guess some of you right about if there are no women around like in army or prison guys have sex with guys.
interestengly the guys who active or i  dont know how u call it they dont call themself gay and it seems normal or not so bad. and the guys who pasive they can be harrased raped and so on.

usualy all people try to protect their children from sexual activities. rich or more educated families have more chances to protect their boys and doughters from sex.
I dont have nothing against gay comunity. 
sexuality its something given by nature and nurture and if you born as stright and grow up with gays or used by them then you will be gay.
i think if a guy have his fist sex with girl and they like each other, he will never have sex with guy.
luckely for me i grow up in russia with plenty girls around ;)
for gay friends when they are young its fine and its fun to be gay but imagine when you 50 or 70. what you gonna do then? no children no granchildren what you gonna do then?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>hey guys its really interesting topic.<br />
i am an afghan myself. Even though i wasnt living in afghanistan for long time, I eard rumors about pushtun tribe having soft heart for boys.<br />
in other part of afghanistan there are terms like bacha bazi( dansing boys)<br />
i guess some of you right about if there are no women around like in army or prison guys have sex with guys.<br />
interestengly the guys who active or i  dont know how u call it they dont call themself gay and it seems normal or not so bad. and the guys who pasive they can be harrased raped and so on.</p>
<p>usualy all people try to protect their children from sexual activities. rich or more educated families have more chances to protect their boys and doughters from sex.<br />
I dont have nothing against gay comunity.<br />
sexuality its something given by nature and nurture and if you born as stright and grow up with gays or used by them then you will be gay.<br />
i think if a guy have his fist sex with girl and they like each other, he will never have sex with guy.<br />
luckely for me i grow up in russia with plenty girls around ;)<br />
for gay friends when they are young its fine and its fun to be gay but imagine when you 50 or 70. what you gonna do then? no children no granchildren what you gonna do then?</p>
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		<title>By: Hameedullah</title>
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		<dc:creator>Hameedullah</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 08:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It is just propacada against Afghans.You should not think it as real.</description>
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		<title>By: zadran</title>
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		<dc:creator>zadran</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 17:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>its  fully rubbish  about afghans or pashtoon people have male sex behave its not 100% right , its really propaganda for afghans pashtoons,we r muslims .our religiouse and our culture never accept these kind unhumans  way,</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>its  fully rubbish  about afghans or pashtoon people have male sex behave its not 100% right , its really propaganda for afghans pashtoons,we r muslims .our religiouse and our culture never accept these kind unhumans  way,</p>
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		<title>By: Luz Vega-Hidalgo</title>
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		<dc:creator>Luz Vega-Hidalgo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2010 16:16:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Men having sex with men is as ancient as civilization. I believe that the activities of war, which has mostly required for men to be away from women and be with men for long periods of time,have throughout history resulted in men engaging in certain types of sexuality. I believe that what happens to men  in combat is that they mostly engage in sexuality to relieve themselves. A soilder looks for sexual relief, he is less apt to look for a relationship.

   In this activity the soildier sees the other person, male or female, as a sexual object. Because men have been the gender of the speicies to fight wars, they are the ones who are more socialized to see another human being as a sex object, in order for them to engae in combat and satisfy their biological sexual needs. I believe that this conditioning is so strong that even E when a society is not in a state of war men, at some level,men carry within them this perception of women and men as sex objects, thus the persistnace of prostitution,a business mostly for men only. Women on the other hand who propagate the species, as a matter of the survival of her children and herself, attach loyalty and long term relationship, emotional attachment and, to their sexuality. 

I believe that a man can have sex with another man and not feel he is homosexual. I believe that our culture which is very influenced by judeo-christian values does not allow for men to just have sex for sex sake. A perception of what this activity  is, and what to call it, based on judeo/christian taboo/perception is where  the problem bgins.

If a man who engages in sex with other men says he is not gay, then I believe he is not gay. Our society tends to force people into beliving things that they genuinely would not, as a matter of conformity or politics. If a man says he is not gay then he is not gay, and stop persecuting him with the concept of denial!

An example of our society forcing someone to believe something they believe and feel they are not is the concept of race between north and South America. I for example am of mixed race, a mixture of american indian, African and caucasian. In Latin America we identify someone racially by skin tones, thus we have many names for skin color. In north America one is either black or white. In U.S.A if I have a drop of black blood, I am black even if I look like Princess Diana. For the longest time white and black north Americans have insisted someone like me is black, and that we are in denial, and they will not accept our perception of race classification. I believe this is what is happening with MSM who don&#039;t believe they are gay. The great researcher Kinsey stated that humans are capable of many expressions of sexuality than we actually know.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Men having sex with men is as ancient as civilization. I believe that the activities of war, which has mostly required for men to be away from women and be with men for long periods of time,have throughout history resulted in men engaging in certain types of sexuality. I believe that what happens to men  in combat is that they mostly engage in sexuality to relieve themselves. A soilder looks for sexual relief, he is less apt to look for a relationship.</p>
<p>   In this activity the soildier sees the other person, male or female, as a sexual object. Because men have been the gender of the speicies to fight wars, they are the ones who are more socialized to see another human being as a sex object, in order for them to engae in combat and satisfy their biological sexual needs. I believe that this conditioning is so strong that even E when a society is not in a state of war men, at some level,men carry within them this perception of women and men as sex objects, thus the persistnace of prostitution,a business mostly for men only. Women on the other hand who propagate the species, as a matter of the survival of her children and herself, attach loyalty and long term relationship, emotional attachment and, to their sexuality. </p>
<p>I believe that a man can have sex with another man and not feel he is homosexual. I believe that our culture which is very influenced by judeo-christian values does not allow for men to just have sex for sex sake. A perception of what this activity  is, and what to call it, based on judeo/christian taboo/perception is where  the problem bgins.</p>
<p>If a man who engages in sex with other men says he is not gay, then I believe he is not gay. Our society tends to force people into beliving things that they genuinely would not, as a matter of conformity or politics. If a man says he is not gay then he is not gay, and stop persecuting him with the concept of denial!</p>
<p>An example of our society forcing someone to believe something they believe and feel they are not is the concept of race between north and South America. I for example am of mixed race, a mixture of american indian, African and caucasian. In Latin America we identify someone racially by skin tones, thus we have many names for skin color. In north America one is either black or white. In U.S.A if I have a drop of black blood, I am black even if I look like Princess Diana. For the longest time white and black north Americans have insisted someone like me is black, and that we are in denial, and they will not accept our perception of race classification. I believe this is what is happening with MSM who don&#8217;t believe they are gay. The great researcher Kinsey stated that humans are capable of many expressions of sexuality than we actually know.</p>
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		<title>By: ewe</title>
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		<dc:creator>ewe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 17:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>ALTHOUGH, having said what i just did, YOU AINT STRAIGHT EITHER GIRLFRIEND!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ALTHOUGH, having said what i just did, YOU AINT STRAIGHT EITHER GIRLFRIEND!!!</p>
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		<title>By: ewe</title>
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		<dc:creator>ewe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 17:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have had sex with plenty of guys who are not gay.  I don&#039;t understand why people think sex is the end all be all to identity.  It isn&#039;t.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have had sex with plenty of guys who are not gay.  I don&#8217;t understand why people think sex is the end all be all to identity.  It isn&#8217;t.</p>
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		<title>By: Vivian</title>
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		<dc:creator>Vivian</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 17:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Come to think of it this is a very interesting topic...i mean    not that it could never be so but who would have ever thought that army man could be gay...i would say that it is very brave of them to be gay and stil be in the army regardless of their homosexuality ,but then again it should also be brought to their understanding that remaing silent of who they realy as well comes with after effects.They should think of as well isuring that the STDs transfering should be kept under control and that what ever they do that be so cautouis that also not cause an increase in the breakin up of families as well..either than that i would love to get more news and updates on this  matter coz really come to think of it people have got rights and so this might also leave questioning to human right laws</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Come to think of it this is a very interesting topic&#8230;i mean    not that it could never be so but who would have ever thought that army man could be gay&#8230;i would say that it is very brave of them to be gay and stil be in the army regardless of their homosexuality ,but then again it should also be brought to their understanding that remaing silent of who they realy as well comes with after effects.They should think of as well isuring that the STDs transfering should be kept under control and that what ever they do that be so cautouis that also not cause an increase in the breakin up of families as well..either than that i would love to get more news and updates on this  matter coz really come to think of it people have got rights and so this might also leave questioning to human right laws</p>
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		<title>By: tee</title>
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		<dc:creator>tee</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 02:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-264320&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;scott ny&#039;er&lt;/a&gt;: 
i like d in me and submissive i am already being f by a guy who wants to watch me f by some one else</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@<a class="atr_link" href="#comment-264320" rel="nofollow">scott ny&#8217;er</a>:<br />
i like d in me and submissive i am already being f by a guy who wants to watch me f by some one else</p>
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		<title>By: Moira</title>
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		<dc:creator>Moira</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 04:19:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thinking that a man is gay JUST BECAUSE he has had sex with another biologically male individual, is stupid and reductive. There are thousands of variables to consider here. Why do you really need to categorize sexual behaviors and say this is straight and this is gay? There are million of nuances in between. It&#039;s not black or white. Some men are unambiguously gay and have only been attracted to men their whole life. Most men are umambiguously straight and have been attracted to women, but, in certain circumstances and for the right individual, they might have sex with a feminine boy and play the male role (insertive). I know gay men who are as gay as they can be, yet they had sex with women (for many reasons, including money or ego boosters). Does it make them bisexual or straight? Hell no! Even gay men who are married with children and have sex with other men outside of their marriages. They are not even bisexual but gay, because they are not attracted to women and married a woman only for a facade. 

As for myself, I am a boy who looks like a beautiful girl. In my life I have had literally hundreds of straight men who wanted to have sex with me. And these were straight, not gay or closeted. How do I know the difference? Because gay like men, don&#039;t like women, and are interested in the penis. Most of the straight men attracted to me, were attracted to me for the exact same reason why a gay would be repulsed at the idea of having sex with me: I look like a girl! These straight men were womanizers and loved women. THey had never been attracted to a non-genetic female before. 

Why on earth you want to put labels on everything? Most straight men would be willing to experiment and give it a try if there were not all these people obsessed with stupid labels. Sexual behaviors cannot and should not be labeled or spelled out.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thinking that a man is gay JUST BECAUSE he has had sex with another biologically male individual, is stupid and reductive. There are thousands of variables to consider here. Why do you really need to categorize sexual behaviors and say this is straight and this is gay? There are million of nuances in between. It&#8217;s not black or white. Some men are unambiguously gay and have only been attracted to men their whole life. Most men are umambiguously straight and have been attracted to women, but, in certain circumstances and for the right individual, they might have sex with a feminine boy and play the male role (insertive). I know gay men who are as gay as they can be, yet they had sex with women (for many reasons, including money or ego boosters). Does it make them bisexual or straight? Hell no! Even gay men who are married with children and have sex with other men outside of their marriages. They are not even bisexual but gay, because they are not attracted to women and married a woman only for a facade. </p>
<p>As for myself, I am a boy who looks like a beautiful girl. In my life I have had literally hundreds of straight men who wanted to have sex with me. And these were straight, not gay or closeted. How do I know the difference? Because gay like men, don&#8217;t like women, and are interested in the penis. Most of the straight men attracted to me, were attracted to me for the exact same reason why a gay would be repulsed at the idea of having sex with me: I look like a girl! These straight men were womanizers and loved women. THey had never been attracted to a non-genetic female before. </p>
<p>Why on earth you want to put labels on everything? Most straight men would be willing to experiment and give it a try if there were not all these people obsessed with stupid labels. Sexual behaviors cannot and should not be labeled or spelled out.</p>
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		<title>By: Lana</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lana</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 03:28:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-264330&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;eagledancer&lt;/a&gt;: this is the most interesting thing I have read in years. Thank you. Is there any chance to contact eagledancer?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@<a class="atr_link" href="#comment-264330" rel="nofollow">eagledancer</a>: this is the most interesting thing I have read in years. Thank you. Is there any chance to contact eagledancer?</p>
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		<title>By: Drew</title>
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		<dc:creator>Drew</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 06:54:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-265247&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dasher&lt;/a&gt;: i thought you said straight boys are not romantic with boys you idiot? you are contridicting yourself again/ first you say straight boys just want sex and that is why they are straight, then you say that straight boys ARE romantic and kiss and foreplay for 20 minutes! which is it moron?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@<a class="atr_link" href="#comment-265247" rel="nofollow">Dasher</a>: i thought you said straight boys are not romantic with boys you idiot? you are contridicting yourself again/ first you say straight boys just want sex and that is why they are straight, then you say that straight boys ARE romantic and kiss and foreplay for 20 minutes! which is it moron?</p>
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		<title>By: Drew</title>
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		<dc:creator>Drew</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 06:48:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-265051&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Larry&lt;/a&gt;: yeah RIGHT stupid!!! many straight men have romantic relationships with other men, it is just low key. many gay men have strictly sexual relationships with men with no romance too that is a fact!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@<a class="atr_link" href="#comment-265051" rel="nofollow">Larry</a>: yeah RIGHT stupid!!! many straight men have romantic relationships with other men, it is just low key. many gay men have strictly sexual relationships with men with no romance too that is a fact!!!</p>
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		<title>By: Drew</title>
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		<dc:creator>Drew</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 06:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-265039&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dasher&lt;/a&gt;: the straight guys you are referring to have sex with other guys because they LIKE it and they LIKE guys, not just because there were &quot;no girls available&quot; you are REALLY fucking stupid!!! If gay men don&#039;t have sex with women when men are not available, it&#039;s because they dont DESIRE women, therefore on the flip side, straight men have sex with men because they LIKE it regardless if women are available or not. They also continue to have sex with men in secret even after they find women for sex!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@<a class="atr_link" href="#comment-265039" rel="nofollow">Dasher</a>: the straight guys you are referring to have sex with other guys because they LIKE it and they LIKE guys, not just because there were &#8220;no girls available&#8221; you are REALLY fucking stupid!!! If gay men don&#8217;t have sex with women when men are not available, it&#8217;s because they dont DESIRE women, therefore on the flip side, straight men have sex with men because they LIKE it regardless if women are available or not. They also continue to have sex with men in secret even after they find women for sex!</p>
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		<title>By: luke</title>
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		<dc:creator>luke</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 14:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What a great dialogue.  Really enjoyed reading through this thread.  Most comment sections are worthless.  This one really made me think.  Thanks, guys</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What a great dialogue.  Really enjoyed reading through this thread.  Most comment sections are worthless.  This one really made me think.  Thanks, guys</p>
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		<title>By: Dasher</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dasher</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:18:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@70 -- Cam -- I can&#039;t disagree with anything you say. I just don&#039;t know how open minded or closeted anyone was in those days or afterwards; I wouldn&#039;t have any way of measuring it. My guess is that people were more narrow-minded and closeted then.

My point was that things were much different then than they are today. Not that there&#039;s anything wrong with today.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@70 &#8212; Cam &#8212; I can&#8217;t disagree with anything you say. I just don&#8217;t know how open minded or closeted anyone was in those days or afterwards; I wouldn&#8217;t have any way of measuring it. My guess is that people were more narrow-minded and closeted then.</p>
<p>My point was that things were much different then than they are today. Not that there&#8217;s anything wrong with today.</p>
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		<title>By: Cam</title>
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		<dc:creator>Cam</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>No. 69 · Dasher 

And it never occured to you that all of those supposedly open minded straights that would seek you out and who ended up marrying women weren&#039;t open minded straight guys, but are rather now, living sadly closeted lives with poor unfullfilled wives?  I don&#039;t avoid sex with women because I&#039;m afraid of getting punched, I avoid it because it&#039;s unappealing to me.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No. 69 · Dasher </p>
<p>And it never occured to you that all of those supposedly open minded straights that would seek you out and who ended up marrying women weren&#8217;t open minded straight guys, but are rather now, living sadly closeted lives with poor unfullfilled wives?  I don&#8217;t avoid sex with women because I&#8217;m afraid of getting punched, I avoid it because it&#8217;s unappealing to me.</p>
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		<title>By: McShane</title>
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		<dc:creator>McShane</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:24:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>No. 63 · NoDoubleStandards; Hephaestion is right on about thye general facts as they demonstrate themselves to us. You have to remember that the distinctions hetero, homo, bi have mainly to do with distinctions that people find it most convenient to make in our culture given the religious and other power relations between people. All of those things are culturally relative and only appear a certain way interpreted within our methods of scrutiny.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No. 63 · NoDoubleStandards; Hephaestion is right on about thye general facts as they demonstrate themselves to us. You have to remember that the distinctions hetero, homo, bi have mainly to do with distinctions that people find it most convenient to make in our culture given the religious and other power relations between people. All of those things are culturally relative and only appear a certain way interpreted within our methods of scrutiny.</p>
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		<title>By: Dasher</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dasher</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Back in the day, before the &quot;Sexual Revolution&quot; took place in the U.S. in the 1970s, teenagers who were attracted to other boys (today, we&#039;d call them &quot;gay teens&quot;) had the potential for much more sex and much greater variety in sex partners. They weren&#039;t restricted to other gay teens the way they are today. Things were therefore much better then, because straight boys looking for something beyond masturbation would seek you out. You didn&#039;t have to risk getting punched out by making advances to them. They would come to you.

Some of these sexual relationships with straight teenagers amounted to nothing more than servicing them, and the instant they ejaculated, they would jump up and be on their way. I had one of those, but I also had what was for me the most wonderful romantic relationship I&#039;ve ever had, including my first kiss. Wow, that boy sure could kiss. He was a year older than me, and ruggedly handsome. He was also very big down there, which could be a problem for me sometimes (I often overheard other boys talking about how big his cock was, or that it was uncut -- I got to see it when it was erect and even bigger than what they saw). Sometimes, foreplay would last 20 minutes or so. I often think his wife should thank me for breaking him in.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Back in the day, before the &#8220;Sexual Revolution&#8221; took place in the U.S. in the 1970s, teenagers who were attracted to other boys (today, we&#8217;d call them &#8220;gay teens&#8221;) had the potential for much more sex and much greater variety in sex partners. They weren&#8217;t restricted to other gay teens the way they are today. Things were therefore much better then, because straight boys looking for something beyond masturbation would seek you out. You didn&#8217;t have to risk getting punched out by making advances to them. They would come to you.</p>
<p>Some of these sexual relationships with straight teenagers amounted to nothing more than servicing them, and the instant they ejaculated, they would jump up and be on their way. I had one of those, but I also had what was for me the most wonderful romantic relationship I&#8217;ve ever had, including my first kiss. Wow, that boy sure could kiss. He was a year older than me, and ruggedly handsome. He was also very big down there, which could be a problem for me sometimes (I often overheard other boys talking about how big his cock was, or that it was uncut &#8212; I got to see it when it was erect and even bigger than what they saw). Sometimes, foreplay would last 20 minutes or so. I often think his wife should thank me for breaking him in.</p>
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		<title>By: Larry</title>
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		<dc:creator>Larry</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 06:49:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-265039&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dasher&lt;/a&gt;: I agree with Dasher. I&#039;ve read about a very similar phenomenon happening in Saudi Arabia in The Atlantic, but they said it&#039;s more like the sex that male prisoners have than the romantic love like genuinely gay men have.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@<a class="atr_link" href="#comment-265039" rel="nofollow">Dasher</a>: I agree with Dasher. I&#8217;ve read about a very similar phenomenon happening in Saudi Arabia in The Atlantic, but they said it&#8217;s more like the sex that male prisoners have than the romantic love like genuinely gay men have.</p>
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		<title>By: Dasher</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dasher</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:46:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It might be easier to understand the current situation in Afghanistan if we just looked back to the way things were in the U.S. in the 1940s, 1950s, and into the 1960s.

Although the various U.S. religions were no doubt stricter then, teenage girls were just not available for sex. There was no deeper shame for a family than to have a pregnant out-of-wedlock daughter. The enforcers were their fathers and older brothers. Teenage boys who were as straight as straight can be had to look elsewhere for sex. This usually involved other boys, and was not advertised. So if you were attracted to other boys to begin with, you sometimes got to make it with some pretty straight hunks. True, it could be a one-way relationship with no kissing, but that wasn&#039;t always the case either. And some of these relationships lasted for several years -- probably longer than some gay-gay relationships today. Not that there&#039;s anything wrong with that...:)

This is a cultural phenomenon that began to die out in the late 1960s or early 1970s. Today, of course, many teenage girls not only look like sluts, they behave like them too. The straight boys can have their pick.

Since most of you posters here aren&#039;t old enough to remember any of this, you probably think I&#039;m making it up.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It might be easier to understand the current situation in Afghanistan if we just looked back to the way things were in the U.S. in the 1940s, 1950s, and into the 1960s.</p>
<p>Although the various U.S. religions were no doubt stricter then, teenage girls were just not available for sex. There was no deeper shame for a family than to have a pregnant out-of-wedlock daughter. The enforcers were their fathers and older brothers. Teenage boys who were as straight as straight can be had to look elsewhere for sex. This usually involved other boys, and was not advertised. So if you were attracted to other boys to begin with, you sometimes got to make it with some pretty straight hunks. True, it could be a one-way relationship with no kissing, but that wasn&#8217;t always the case either. And some of these relationships lasted for several years &#8212; probably longer than some gay-gay relationships today. Not that there&#8217;s anything wrong with that&#8230;:)</p>
<p>This is a cultural phenomenon that began to die out in the late 1960s or early 1970s. Today, of course, many teenage girls not only look like sluts, they behave like them too. The straight boys can have their pick.</p>
<p>Since most of you posters here aren&#8217;t old enough to remember any of this, you probably think I&#8217;m making it up.</p>
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		<title>By: eagledancer</title>
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		<dc:creator>eagledancer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-264825&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;hephaestion&lt;/a&gt;: I suggested to Queerty staff when the site was first starting to do a regular feature/column on cross-cultural sexuality and Human Sexuality in general, but got no response.  I still think it&#039;s a good idea.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@<a class="atr_link" href="#comment-264825" rel="nofollow">hephaestion</a>: I suggested to Queerty staff when the site was first starting to do a regular feature/column on cross-cultural sexuality and Human Sexuality in general, but got no response.  I still think it&#8217;s a good idea.</p>
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		<title>By: eagledancer</title>
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		<dc:creator>eagledancer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:33:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-264576&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Charles Merrill&lt;/a&gt;: Hey Charles--my earlier posts were specifically addressed to &quot;hypermasculine&quot; cultures, where there is an extreme separation between men and women in public settings.  I feel the United States is a culture that has been struggling with its masculine identity for a number of decades.  There&#039;s a great book by Mark Simpson--Male Impersonators:  Men Performing Masculinity.  He suggests how really fragile American (and British ) concepts of masculinity are, and how they are so constantly at the point of failure, they have to be &quot;re-created/re-enforced&quot; at all times.

Unfortunately, for all the &quot;nice Democracy,&quot; 
that  &quot;...allows for two gentle men (not butch acting) of the same economic status to be in love.&quot;  The truth is in most of America these romantic couples are not allowed to legally marry any more than Victorian same-sex couples were. 
 
&quot;The Victorian Oscar Wilde &quot;Prince and the Pauper&quot; is outdated.&quot; Maybe...not so much.  Certainly we&#039;ve been witness to an evolutionary process where same-sex couples are being better integrated into the society as a whole.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@<a class="atr_link" href="#comment-264576" rel="nofollow">Charles Merrill</a>: Hey Charles&#8211;my earlier posts were specifically addressed to &#8220;hypermasculine&#8221; cultures, where there is an extreme separation between men and women in public settings.  I feel the United States is a culture that has been struggling with its masculine identity for a number of decades.  There&#8217;s a great book by Mark Simpson&#8211;Male Impersonators:  Men Performing Masculinity.  He suggests how really fragile American (and British ) concepts of masculinity are, and how they are so constantly at the point of failure, they have to be &#8220;re-created/re-enforced&#8221; at all times.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, for all the &#8220;nice Democracy,&#8221;<br />
that  &#8220;&#8230;allows for two gentle men (not butch acting) of the same economic status to be in love.&#8221;  The truth is in most of America these romantic couples are not allowed to legally marry any more than Victorian same-sex couples were. </p>
<p>&#8220;The Victorian Oscar Wilde &#8220;Prince and the Pauper&#8221; is outdated.&#8221; Maybe&#8230;not so much.  Certainly we&#8217;ve been witness to an evolutionary process where same-sex couples are being better integrated into the society as a whole.</p>
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		<title>By: Jason</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>But, I don&#039;t really like sand in my butt crack.  I don&#039;t.</description>
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		<title>By: NoDoubleStandards</title>
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		<dc:creator>NoDoubleStandards</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-264825&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;hephaestion&lt;/a&gt;: Again this is not about homosexuality or any verb- it is about repression. And whether or not these men are straight or not is not something that any of you can know one way or the other. Let&#039;s put it this way, given the amount of repression that still exist in the West despite advances on sexuality, do you really think in cultures that completely avoid sexuality that it will be any less fucked up? WHo is gay, who is straight, who is bisexual is an issue that we do not even reach due to the repression of  sex. Even that person you slept with may or may not have been gay. So how would you know?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@<a class="atr_link" href="#comment-264825" rel="nofollow">hephaestion</a>: Again this is not about homosexuality or any verb- it is about repression. And whether or not these men are straight or not is not something that any of you can know one way or the other. Let&#8217;s put it this way, given the amount of repression that still exist in the West despite advances on sexuality, do you really think in cultures that completely avoid sexuality that it will be any less fucked up? WHo is gay, who is straight, who is bisexual is an issue that we do not even reach due to the repression of  sex. Even that person you slept with may or may not have been gay. So how would you know?</p>
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		<title>By: hephaestion</title>
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		<dc:creator>hephaestion</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:22:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Queerty should run a series on how societies around the world view homosexuality.  It differs greatly from Japan to Java to Nepal to Burkino Faso, etc etc...</description>
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		<title>By: hephaestion</title>
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		<dc:creator>hephaestion</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Eagledancer, Sam &amp; Jason are right.

The Afghan soldiers are most straight.  But across the African-Middle Eastern-Asian Moslem world straight men have sex with men all the time.  I recall my shock the first time an Iranian straight man wanted to have sex with me.  It&#039;s no big deal over there. They are forbidden from going NEAR a female there, lest they be severely shunned (or worse), so they turn to other men for sex.

Saudi Arabia has been described as a gay Nirvana. Sex between men happens constantly.  But it&#039;s absolutely verbotten to be indiscrete about it.

An Iranian told me that virtually all Moslem mullahs there are gay.  All of them.  And you know the Sufi whirling dervishes are, too.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Eagledancer, Sam &amp; Jason are right.</p>
<p>The Afghan soldiers are most straight.  But across the African-Middle Eastern-Asian Moslem world straight men have sex with men all the time.  I recall my shock the first time an Iranian straight man wanted to have sex with me.  It&#8217;s no big deal over there. They are forbidden from going NEAR a female there, lest they be severely shunned (or worse), so they turn to other men for sex.</p>
<p>Saudi Arabia has been described as a gay Nirvana. Sex between men happens constantly.  But it&#8217;s absolutely verbotten to be indiscrete about it.</p>
<p>An Iranian told me that virtually all Moslem mullahs there are gay.  All of them.  And you know the Sufi whirling dervishes are, too.</p>
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		<title>By: Bianca</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bianca</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 06:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-264662&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;NoDoubleStandards&lt;/a&gt;:  
&quot;There is such a thing a situational sex between men, but that&#039;s not the point here. THe point is that there is no way in a repressed culture to know what these men&#039;s true sexuality is because of the repression. It is just a different form of repression than the west, but it is repression of anything beyond heterosexuality&quot;

That&#039;s spot on, in my view. I totally agree.

When sexual repression is that deep and starts from childhood, there&#039;s no way of knowing anymore if they are really gay or simply screwed up beyond repair by social influences and indoctrination.

These men have no way to even test what way they gravitate, the way men (boys) can in more advanced societies (even decades ago). They aren&#039;t allowed any kind of sexual contact with girls whatsoever I&#039;m not even talking about full intercouse but much less.
They grow up in strictly male company and if they marry late (late teens, mid 20&#039;s) what are they supposed to do with all those raging hormones for decades? 

I bet almost every man in their societies had at least some kind 
of sexual experience with another male.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@<a class="atr_link" href="#comment-264662" rel="nofollow">NoDoubleStandards</a>:<br />
&#8220;There is such a thing a situational sex between men, but that&#8217;s not the point here. THe point is that there is no way in a repressed culture to know what these men&#8217;s true sexuality is because of the repression. It is just a different form of repression than the west, but it is repression of anything beyond heterosexuality&#8221;</p>
<p>That&#8217;s spot on, in my view. I totally agree.</p>
<p>When sexual repression is that deep and starts from childhood, there&#8217;s no way of knowing anymore if they are really gay or simply screwed up beyond repair by social influences and indoctrination.</p>
<p>These men have no way to even test what way they gravitate, the way men (boys) can in more advanced societies (even decades ago). They aren&#8217;t allowed any kind of sexual contact with girls whatsoever I&#8217;m not even talking about full intercouse but much less.<br />
They grow up in strictly male company and if they marry late (late teens, mid 20&#8242;s) what are they supposed to do with all those raging hormones for decades? </p>
<p>I bet almost every man in their societies had at least some kind<br />
of sexual experience with another male.</p>
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		<title>By: NoDoubleStandards</title>
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		<dc:creator>NoDoubleStandards</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-264692&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Chitown Kev&lt;/a&gt;: Yeah that why I was careful at the end to point out that my experiences with Muslim men are of certain countries like Pakistan rather than Afghanistan because I don&#039;t know much about them other than from some straight friends, and as you may imagine they would disavow any knowledge of the subject even if I asked.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@<a class="atr_link" href="#comment-264692" rel="nofollow">Chitown Kev</a>: Yeah that why I was careful at the end to point out that my experiences with Muslim men are of certain countries like Pakistan rather than Afghanistan because I don&#8217;t know much about them other than from some straight friends, and as you may imagine they would disavow any knowledge of the subject even if I asked.</p>
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		<title>By: Chitown Kev</title>
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		<dc:creator>Chitown Kev</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-264692&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Chitown Kev&lt;/a&gt;: 

Now, witht he growth of fundamentalist Islam in Southeast Asia (e.g. Indonesia) this may be changing to stricter enforcement of Islamic law, but much of what I said would apply to Southeast Asia (which is very different from the Middle East).</description>
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<p>Now, witht he growth of fundamentalist Islam in Southeast Asia (e.g. Indonesia) this may be changing to stricter enforcement of Islamic law, but much of what I said would apply to Southeast Asia (which is very different from the Middle East).</p>
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		<title>By: Chitown Kev</title>
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		<dc:creator>Chitown Kev</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:27:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-264689&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;NoDoubleStandards&lt;/a&gt;: 

That&#039;s true for the Middle East, but not necessarily for Southeast Asia (and Afghanistan could be considered part of both).</description>
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<p>That&#8217;s true for the Middle East, but not necessarily for Southeast Asia (and Afghanistan could be considered part of both).</p>
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		<title>By: Chitown Kev</title>
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		<dc:creator>Chitown Kev</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-264686&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;NoDoubleStandards&lt;/a&gt;: 
Ah, but you&#039;re replying to my comment. Thanks for the clarification.

Of course, in Iran, there is another alternative

http://www.queerty.com/does-gay-hating-iran-actually-embrace-its-transexuals-20090303/</description>
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Ah, but you&#8217;re replying to my comment. Thanks for the clarification.</p>
<p>Of course, in Iran, there is another alternative</p>
<p><a href="http://www.queerty.com/does-gay-hating-iran-actually-embrace-its-transexuals-20090303/" rel="nofollow">http://www.queerty.com/does-ga.....-20090303/</a></p>
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		<title>By: NoDoubleStandards</title>
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		<dc:creator>NoDoubleStandards</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-264681&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Chitown Kev&lt;/a&gt;: As Re gore Vidal and others, that&#039;s my only point. That if one is saying don&#039;t judge them by our standards, then that applies to everyone including those claiming some kind of liberation in the middle east that is simply not there. I am not specifying you here, but , instead the general sense of the comments that are saying &quot;Oh, they accept sex between men more&quot; No one actually said that, but I want to make it incredibly clear they don&#039;t accept it more, but choose to repress and oppress it in different ways than we do. It is like debating whether one wants to die by hanging or by gun fire. In both instances, you are dead so the point while interesting, can miss the bigger picture.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@<a class="atr_link" href="#comment-264681" rel="nofollow">Chitown Kev</a>: As Re gore Vidal and others, that&#8217;s my only point. That if one is saying don&#8217;t judge them by our standards, then that applies to everyone including those claiming some kind of liberation in the middle east that is simply not there. I am not specifying you here, but , instead the general sense of the comments that are saying &#8220;Oh, they accept sex between men more&#8221; No one actually said that, but I want to make it incredibly clear they don&#8217;t accept it more, but choose to repress and oppress it in different ways than we do. It is like debating whether one wants to die by hanging or by gun fire. In both instances, you are dead so the point while interesting, can miss the bigger picture.</p>
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		<title>By: Charles Merrill</title>
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		<dc:creator>Charles Merrill</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:22:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-264676&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;NoDoubleStandards&lt;/a&gt;: They put you in a hole and bury everything except your neck and head.  Then the mob throws stones at you, killing you, shouting &quot;God Is Great&quot;.  The other method is to push a stone wall over on you shouting &quot;God is Great&quot;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@<a class="atr_link" href="#comment-264676" rel="nofollow">NoDoubleStandards</a>: They put you in a hole and bury everything except your neck and head.  Then the mob throws stones at you, killing you, shouting &#8220;God Is Great&#8221;.  The other method is to push a stone wall over on you shouting &#8220;God is Great&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>By: NoDoubleStandards</title>
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		<dc:creator>NoDoubleStandards</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-264684&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Chitown Kev&lt;/a&gt;: My reference is the plural you, and not you specifically. As in the people posting here, rather than your specific understanding.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@<a class="atr_link" href="#comment-264684" rel="nofollow">Chitown Kev</a>: My reference is the plural you, and not you specifically. As in the people posting here, rather than your specific understanding.</p>
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		<title>By: Chitown Kev</title>
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		<dc:creator>Chitown Kev</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-264675&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;NoDoubleStandards&lt;/a&gt;:

&quot;My point is that you should not confuse self hate and its many permutations with greater acceptance.&quot;

By the way, not confusing the two at all.</description>
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<p>&#8220;My point is that you should not confuse self hate and its many permutations with greater acceptance.&#8221;</p>
<p>By the way, not confusing the two at all.</p>
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