Dance of bacha, Samarkand, 1905–1915, photo by Prokudin-Gorsky "Portrait of bacha", by Vasily Vereshchagin (1867–1868) Bacha bāzī (Persian: بچه بازی, lit. 'boy play')[1] is a practice in which men (sometimes called bacha baz) buy and keep adolescent boys, or dancing boys, for entertainment and sex.[2][3] Pederasty is a custom in Afghanistan and often involves sexual slavery and child prostitution