Research shows us that the majority of all women who are raped or sexually assaulted will ‘freeze’ during the assault.
They will not fight back or scream for help.
Freezing is the most common response (70%+) - if you froze, that’s completely normal and natural.
They will not fight back or scream for help.
Freezing is the most common response (70%+) - if you froze, that’s completely normal and natural.
It’s common to feel a lot of self blame and self doubt if you froze when you were being raped or sexually abused.
It’s common to wonder why you didn’t fight back or tell someone.
You can be made to feel like everyone else’s natural instinct would have been to fight back.
It’s common to wonder why you didn’t fight back or tell someone.
You can be made to feel like everyone else’s natural instinct would have been to fight back.
But that is absolutely not true.
The majority of us will freeze.
The second most common response is to try to negotiate with the perp or allow them to continue the offence, or bargain with them ‘you can do this but please don’t do that’.
Fight responses are very rare.
The majority of us will freeze.
The second most common response is to try to negotiate with the perp or allow them to continue the offence, or bargain with them ‘you can do this but please don’t do that’.
Fight responses are very rare.
The reason they are so rare in sexual and domestic violence is because there is a huge power imbalance to consider.
Fighting back is often not in your best interests with a perpetrator who would harm you even more (or kill you) for resisting.
You know this, and so you freeze.
Fighting back is often not in your best interests with a perpetrator who would harm you even more (or kill you) for resisting.
You know this, and so you freeze.
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