Shanzophrenia.

Child sexual abuse occurs when an adult or adolescent uses a child for sexual purposes. It involves exposing a child to any sexual activity or behavior. Sexual abuse is inherently emotionally abusive and is often accompanied by other forms of mistreatment. It is a betrayal of trust and an abuse of power over the child.

It is difficult to measure the prevalence of abuse in our society, because there are no verifications available from any source and underreporting. One of the underreported issues reveals on the attitudes to child sex abuse in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province
an acutely sensitive subject in this deeply conservative Islamic country paints a horrifying picture of widespread abuse. The many of the population believe that the sexual abuse of young boys is a matter of pride.Further reports reveal that one third of those who took part in the survey did not even believe that child sexual abuse was a bad thing. Now imagine someone like that! Lets say someone close to you.

In Pakistan much of the population lives in squalid slums where children are forced to play their part in the day-to-day survival of the family. That means working in places such as the notorious Pirwadhai bus station in Rawalpindi. Here there are hundreds of young boys at work in the grimy workshops and sleazy hotels on which the bus station's reputation is based. For this is a center of child sexual abuse. Local hotels encourage the trade of children who are used to attract customers. The customers are then told what kind of services are provided and that they can do what they want with the children. The hotels here are very well known for these services. And it earns good money for them.
Their clients are men from all backgrounds - traveling from one part of the country to another - thus freed from the constraints of life at home in this conservative society. With girls mostly kept at home - they prey on these working boys who are extremely vulnerable to abuse.

There is a lot of repression of sexuality this shows up in unhealthy forms. Rare healthy expressions of sexuality are found in everyday life so sexual abuse becomes very common.

For the victims it is a terrifying ordeal. As reported by BBC in an interview with a 7-year-old boy as he was raped. He said the men in his village were like dogs - 'they would eat you like a dog' he said. 'It was not safe for any young fair-skinned boy to go out alone. It was a tradition to molest boys'.

According to the report many people in Frontier Province are also well aware that men in the area keep boys specifically for sex. All this seems to be a result of the rigid segregation of men and women in Pakistan, which is most seriously enforced in the Pashtoon areas of the North. Under Pashtoon culture it is very difficult for a young man to interact with the opposite sex - particularly in the rural areas. Young boys therefore become the targets of abuse.
The number of incidents presented in the print media do not represent the total numbers of such incidents in Pakistan-because such issues are taboo and are not easily reported. Any attempt to quantify the issue of child sexual abuse is bound to be limited in scope.
Sexual exploitation of children is a social taboo and people are needed to overcome their hesitation of admitting or talking about it. The time has come to debate the more horrifying aspects of society, which is often neglected and such issues are condemned, suppressed deep behind the shame’s of families and children who have suffered.

Pakistani children faced the worst forms of abuse and exploitation and are not being protected by the government. The fates of homeless children are worse; they are abused, tortured, and often killed by both the police and the public.

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Sources: BBC News(Reports), UNICEF Pakistan, Sahil (Statistics)