Sexual Molestation, a manifestation of sexual perversion, is a stigma on the human society. It impacts the victims not onlyphysically, but more than that,torments them mentally, emotionally and psychologically. Sometimes the hurt is so deep that it ruins their complete lives. Anuradha Roy has brought this issue in the fore front realistically through her novel Sleeping on Jupiter. The book is a saga not onlyof Nomi’s sexual abuse, but is also a pointer towards the possible solutions of such cases of perversion.Many psychologists and scholarshave also studied about the psychological conditions of molesters and psychological aftermaths of its victims. The present paper explores Sleeping on Jupiter from the point of view of the problem of sexual perversion and, at the same time, suggests certain solutions that real life victims may adopt to protect their lives from theresulting excruciating mental agony

Molestation, perversion, sexual abuse, mental agony