Think Men Are Not Sexually Abused? Hear Out This Survivor | The Quint

The statistics on male sexual abuse indicate that it's high time we start looking at child sexual abuse from a gender-neutral lens.
The Minister of Women and Child Development said in the Parliament that only 467 male child abuse cases were lodged with the police out of 36,321 reported incidents in 2016.
But we didn’t want to just delve into data, but give a face to it – which in this case happens to be the narrator of our video, Lokesh Pawar, a writer and survivor of child sexual abuse.
He told us that most men never share their trauma and those who do are scared to talk about it openly. They can’t open up to their families and most of them are living a life of fear and confusion. They stay silent fearing stigma and lack of acceptance of the fact that boys can be abused.

MUA: Tejashri Shikare

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