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Bacha posh ( Pashto: باشا بوش, lit. 'dressed up as a boy', Dari: بچه پوشی) is an Afghan tradition [ 1][ 2][ 3] in which some families will pick a daughter to live and behave as a boy. This enables the child to behave more freely: attending school, escorting her sisters in public, and working. [ 2][ 3] The practice is more ...
Bacha bazi. Bacha bāzī ( Persian: بچه بازی, lit. 'boy play') [ 1] is a practice in which men (sometimes called bacha baz) buy and keep adolescent boys (sometimes called dancing boys) for entertainment and sex. [ 2][ 3] It is a custom in Afghanistan and in historical Turkestan and often involves sexual slavery and child prostitution by ...
Afghan clothing. Traditional Afghan attire worn by school children in Kabul. Clothing in Afghanistan consists of the traditional style of clothing worn in Afghanistan. The various cultural exchanges in the nation's history have influenced the styles and flavors of contemporary Afghan designs. [ 1] The national dress is the fusion of different ...
The eponymous Boys as depicted in the television series and comics respectively. The following is a list of fictional characters from the comic series The Boys, created by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, and subsequent media franchise developed by Eric Kripke, consisting of a live-action adaptation, the web series Seven on 7, the animated anthology series The Boys Presents: Diabolical, and ...
In the United States, the Motion Picture Production Code, or Hays Code, enforced after 1934, banned the exposure of the female navel in Hollywood films. [3] The National Legion of Decency, a Roman Catholic body guarding over American media content, also pressured Hollywood to keep clothing that exposed certain parts of the female body, such as bikinis and low-cut dresses, from being featured ...
Islamic clothing is clothing that is interpreted as being in accordance with the teachings of Islam. Muslims wear a wide variety of clothing, which is influenced not only by religious considerations, but also by practical, cultural, social, and political factors. [ 1][ 2] In modern times, some Muslims have adopted clothing based on Western ...
Timmy Turner (voiced by Mary Kay Bergman in the original Oh Yeah! Cartoons shorts, Tara Strong in the television series and A Fairly Odd Summer and portrayed by Drake Bell in the live-action films and Alec Baldwin in the "Channel Chasers" television series and played by Caleb Pierce in The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder) is a 10-year-old boy who was given fairy godparents to grant his every ...
Osama ( Dari: اُسامه, romanized: Osamah) is a 2003 drama film made in Afghanistan by Siddiq Barmak. The film follows a preteen girl living in Afghanistan under the Taliban regime who disguises herself as a boy, Osama, to support her family. It was the first film to be shot entirely in Afghanistan since 1996, when the Taliban regime banned ...