{"id":1370,"date":"2018-12-26T13:36:29","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T18:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/hedgerow\/?p=1370"},"modified":"2020-02-22T15:33:56","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T20:33:56","slug":"10-year-old-boy-dances-for-money-on-stage-and-its-not-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/hedgerow\/2018\/12\/10-year-old-boy-dances-for-money-on-stage-and-its-not-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"10-year-old boy dances for money on stage and it’s not in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Bacha Bazi<\/a> is the practice of dressing little boys up like girls, teaching them to dance like girls, and then selling them to the highest bidder among adult men. Primarily practiced throughout the Islamic world, it became more widely known through several documentaries<\/a> exposing its prevalence in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

Bacha b\u0101z\u012b\u00a0is the transliteration of a Persian phrase that means \u201cboy play.\u201d It\u2019s derived from two Persian words \u201cbacha<\/em>\u201d meaning \u201cchild,\u201d and \u201cb\u0101z\u012b<\/em>\u201d meaning \u201cgame.\u201d\u00a0The\u00a0Bacha Baz, \u201cpedophile\u201d in Persian, is the perpetrator. \u00a0A \u201cbacha bereesh\u201d is a boy without a beard.<\/p>\n

Part of Bacha\u00a0b\u0101z\u012b mostly involves using small boys for\u00a0child pornography, sexual slavery\u00a0and\u00a0prostitution. Thousands of\u00a0prepubescent and adolescent boys are sold to men for entertainment and sexual abuse. The most desirable age for dancing boys is 13 or 14 years-old, which means in order to groom them, they must be kidnapped, rented, or bought at a younger age.\u00a0Boys targeted for sex-trafficking are often found on playgrounds in the poorest neighborhoods. They are stolen, rented, or bought, then groomed, and forced into a life of slavery.<\/p>\n

However, something too similar is happening in Brooklyn, New York, under the guise of \u201cdrag kids.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Desmond Is Amazing at 3 Dollar Bill in Brooklyn. Source: Instagram<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

First reported on by Dangerous.com, the 10-year-old, called Desmond is Amazing, is performing for money at a homosexual night club in Brooklyn. This appears to be a violation of federal and state child labor laws.<\/p>\n

Desmond danced on a stage wearing a crop top, makeup, and a wig, before a crowd of adult men who showered him in dollar bills.<\/p>\n

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Desmond Is Amazing at 3 Dollar Bill in Brooklyn. Source: Instagram<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The homosexual night club\/bar, 3 Dollar Bill, promoted the event called Club Whoa! on social media\u2013 which is essentially promoting pedastry. Desmond also promotes himself on his Instagram page, which is followed by 105,000 people as of Dec. 28, 2o018.<\/p>\n

Adults who wanted to watch a half-naked child dance at an adult male club could buy tickets on an Eventbright<\/a>\u00a0page\u2013 which describes the venue as \u201cqueer owned & operated we foster a safe space from love. we respect all human persons as long as those human persons are also respectful to the ones around them.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Except there is nothing safe about this.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Photos evidence Desmond dressed like a girl collecting money from adult men\u2013 no different than a stripper.<\/p>\n

According to Dangerous.com, one day after the performance, one reviewer on Yelp! wrote: \u201cI left after seeing a child dance on stage for money at nighttime. This was on Saturday night and I have been feeling disturbed ever since.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another reviewer said the club has a \u201cweird no cell phone policy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Desmond Is Amazing, a Brooklyn native, has become a celebrity in the drag queen world and LGBT community.\u00a0He became famous after a video<\/a>\u00a0went viral showing him dancing at a \u201cgay pride parade\u201d when he was eight-years-old.<\/p>\n

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Last December, Desmond appeared on\u00a0a YouTube show hosted<\/a>\u00a0by drag queen Michael Alig, who was just released from a 17 year prison sentence for killing and dismembering his drug dealer.<\/em> Alig was the subject of the 2003 film, \u201cParty Monster,\u201d staring Macaulay Culkin. In the video, Desmond is seated directly below a piece of artwork with the word \u201cRohypnol\u201d painted on it. Rohypnol, or \u201croofies,\u201d is a date rape drug.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Child Protective Services might be the least of his parents\u2019 worries as they appear to be breaking several laws. Pedophilia and child pornography are still illegal in the U.S. no matter what LBGTQI activists may claim.<\/p>\n

There is nothing safe about promoting children performing for money in what appears to be an abusive and dangerous environment.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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