I think it has to do with sex appeal avoidance. Islam teaches them that a man’s lust is so damning, women must not trigger it outside of marriage. The odd thing about it, though, is that men are taught that sex for anything but procreation is disgusting (sound familiar?) so they keep a young boy around the house for recreational sex.
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