By Dr. Kimberly Mehlman-Orozco At this point, the coronavirus pandemic has affected nearly every aspect of American life, from how we work and educate to how we socialize and shop. As such, it is no surprise that it has also affected our commercial sex industry, from...
By Dr. Kimberly Mehlman-Orozco Recently, Kamala Harris became the first mainstream U.S. presidential candidate to publicly state she supports the decriminalization of the commercial sex industry. In an interview with the Root, the career prosecutor and junior senator from California was asked, “Do you think that sex work...
By Dr. Kimberly Mehlman-Orozco Continuing our effort to take readers behind the headlines, this is the third of a three-part blog series on what every American should know about sex slaves, commercial sex consumers, and sex traffickers— hidden in plain sight, in big cities and small...
By Dr. Kimberly Mehlman-Orozco Continuing our effort to take readers behind the headlines, this is the second of a three-part blog series on what every American should know about sex slaves, commercial sex consumers, and sex traffickers— hidden in plain sight, in big cities and small...
By Dr. Kimberly Mehlman-Orozco The recent allegations against powerful men like Robert Kraft and Jeffrey Epstein consuming commercial sex services from possible victims have thrust the topic of sex trafficking into the forefront of American discourse. Over the years the public has been exposed to occasional...