“I am a survivor of child sexual abuse. I was raped by a male relative for 11 long years from the age of seven to 18”, said Harish Iyer, an equal rights activist who was named as one of the most influential gay men in the world by The Guardian newspaper. His revelations are in stark contrast to our national debate about rape, where males are always the perpetrators and never the victims.
It was only in April that a 16-year-old boy from Mumbai claimed that his best friend’s mother had assaulted him sexually for three months. The woman reportedly claimed that she was pregnant and threatened the boy to frame him in a rape case if he ever told anybody what had happened. The story is a cruel awakening of the fact that around 57% children across the country are being abused by adults they trust and more than half of these children are male.
“I am a survivor of child sexual abuse. I was raped by a male relative for 11 long years from the age of seven to 18”, said Harish Iyer, an equal rights activist who was named as one of the most influential gay men in the world by The Guardian newspaper. His revelations are in stark contrast to our national debate about rape, where males are always the perpetrators and never the victims.
It was only in April that a 16-year-old boy from Mumbai claimed that his best friend’s mother had assaulted him sexually for three months. The woman reportedly claimed that she was pregnant and threatened the boy to frame him in a rape case if he ever told anybody what had happened. The story is a cruel awakening of the fact that around 57% children across the country are being abused by adults they trust and more than half of these children are male.
