IRAQ: Boys trapped in commercial sex trade

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BAGHDAD, 8 Aug 2005 (IRIN) - Hassan Feiraz, a 16-year-old boy, has started a desperate new life since being forced into the sex trade in Baghdad, joining a growing number of adolescents soliciting in Iraq under the threat of street gangs or the force of poverty.

"Every day I cry at night,” Feiraz said. “I’m a homosexual and was forced to work as a prostitute because one of the people I had sex with took pictures of me in bed and said that, if I didn't work for him, he was going to send the pictures to my family.”

"My life is a disaster today. I could be killed by my family to restore their honour,” he said, explaining that homosexuality was totally unacceptable in Iraq due to religious beliefs.

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[WearyOne]

1. welcome kids to the joys of "democracy" US style !

[davidinalameda]

2. I doubt you can blame the Bushies for this one

this happens all over the world, including this country

kids get trapped in prostitution for a number of reasons