Tuesday 11 March 2014

There is a boy across the river with a bottom like a peach

There is a boy across the river with a bottom like a peach
But alas! I cannot swim

Khushal Khan, quoted in W. Dalrymple, Return of a King (2013), 17
Though the endnotes sadly tell us that 'many scholars doubt the authenticity of this celebrated couplet'
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  1. Spitfireboy 25 January 2022 at 18:20

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  2. Spitfireboy 25 January 2022 at 18:26

    My Uncle's Afghan servants taught him this poem in the 1960s. It is widely known in Afghanistan as a part of their 'Man Love' cultural periods. Women are considered forbidden once they reach fertility. Man love is an accepted alternative. Young 'feminine looking prepubescent boys especially. What I am disclosing is directly from Afghan native men during the 1960s.

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