I have no idea if this would be of interest, AND no idea what would be the best category, but I thought I'd post it here.
What People Misunderstand About Rape
Sexual assault often goes unpunished when victims fail to fight back. But investigators, psychologists and biologists all describe freezing as an involuntary response to trauma.
By Jen Percy
“I froze,” the woman said, thinking back on the day she was raped during a military exercise a few summers ago...
There’s a lingua franca that women use, a repeated vocabulary to describe what they experience and think during a sexual assault. Variations of “freezing” are often part of that vocabulary. But the word has so many referents in its colloquial usage that it’s hard to know precisely what it means to each person saying it...
All these responses, which often feel shameful or abnormal to the women reporting them, are common but misunderstood.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/22/magazine/immobility-rape-trauma-freeze.html