India’s hidden crisis of abused boys has been sustained by stigma and toxic masculinity, resulting in victims being unheard and perpetrators going unchallenged. “Sexual Abuse” is a term which is both by direct implication and by suggestion, refers to the girl child. So, the idea of a little boy being sexually abused when he doesn't even understand the words “sexual” and “abuse” is not only never questioned by anyone in authority but not believed either. In some tragic cases,