A member of the LGBT crisis management team Vyjayanti Mogli tells The Times of India, "Victims find it traumatising to speak of their brothers/ cousins turning rapists and prefer to delete the incident from their memories and cut off ties with their families. The trauma from such incidents often make victims want to cut off ties with their families or even run away from home. I tried reaching out to these victims, but they refused to talk." Tadanki is quoted by The Times of India as saying, "When I was researching on this subject for my film, I came across two gut wrenching stories of corrective rape - one, where a gay girl was raped by her cousin so that she could be "cured" of homosexuality and another, where family members forced a gay boy to have sex with his mother, in a bid to turn him 'straight'. While men in the family rape their lesbian relatives to 'cure' them, gay men too are victims of this crime.ĭeepthi Tadanki, who is in the process of making a film on this taboo topic reveals some horror stories she came across while researching for her film. Now we see the rise of this crime in our backyards. The term was coined in South Africa in the early 2000s when charity workers first noticed an influx of such attacks." An article in New York Times says, "Corrective rape is a hate crime wielded to convert lesbians to heterosexuality – an attempt to 'cure' them of being gay. The term 'corrective rape' was first coined in South Africa where this practice is prevalent. And why this hesitation? Because most of the perpetrators of this act are people from the family - brothers, cousins and even mothers. As horrendous as this practice is, what makes it worse is the unwillingness of the victims to lodge a complaint with the police.