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Stolen childhood innocence, a scarred manhood

While sexual escapades between young boys and house helps are the stuff of many locker-room talks, they are not as funny or harmless as many make them out to be. [Courtesy]

He is nervous about talking to me. He doesn’t want to use his real name because it wouldn’t do him well to be a source of curiosity to his family and friends.

However, he fascinates me, because unlike other men who talk gaily about their sexual escapades with the domestic help in their teenage years, Muli, 32, is not bragging about it.

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