What’s Behind Kamala’s 180 on Decriminalizing Prostitution?

San Francisco’s weak-on-crime prosecutor has gotten even softer on crime

Is there a radical position Kamala Harris doesn’t support? The nation is quickly finding out. Her latest flip-flop to appease the far Left: Decriminalizing prostitution across America.

In her first failed bid for president in 2019, then-California Sen. Harris endorsed decriminalizing “sex work,” calling it a “consensual behavior” that should be legalized (prostitution is illegal in every state but Nevada).

INTERVIEWER: “Do you think sex work should be decriminalized?”

HARRIS: “I think so, I do. I think that we have to understand, though, that it is not as simple as that. It is also about—there is an ecosystem around that that includes crimes that harm people, and for those issues I do not believe that anybody who hurts another human being or profits off of their exploitation should [not] be admonished, or should be free of criminal prosecution.

“But when you’re talking about consenting adults, I think that—you know, yes, we should really consider that we can’t criminalize consensual behavior as long as no one is being harmed. But at the point that anyone is being harmed or exploited, then I think that we have to understand that’s a different matter.”

Harmed & Exploited

That’s a far cry from the position she took as San Francisco District Attorney. In her 2009 book Smart on Crime, Harris blasted prostitution as a “fundamentally degrading and dehumanizing act.”

“Media coverage of call-girl rings that cater to the rich and famous . . . as well as films like Pretty Woman, have created a popular misconception that many prostitutes are willing, happy, well-paid participants in relations between consenting adults,” she wrote.

“Many johns [male customers] believe that women and girls have chosen to be prostitutes because they like the work and they enjoy the time they spend with their johns. That’s how the pimps train them to talk,” Harris continued before describing “the diseases they suffer, and the drug addiction and despair that keep them trapped.”

These young girls “often have never experienced a healthy family relationship,” she explained, so “they sometimes mistakenly see in the attention of a pimp or predator a perverse form of love and protection.”

The San Francisco-based Prostitution Research Center observes that in places where prostitution is legal:

• 60% of women have been physically assaulted
• 40% have suffered sexual violence
• 40% were coerced into the commercial sex trade.
• Women involved in street prostitution are 60 to 100 times more likely to be murdered than are non-prostituted females.

There are as many as 2 million prostitutes in the United States, and probably far more. Nonpartisan research by one European group shows that “90% of prostituted people are women girls” while “97% of sex buyers are men.”  As much as 95 percent have reported being physically assaulted, 70 percent say they’ve been raped, and 68 percent “met the criteria for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).”

“9 in 10 women in prostitution have said that they would leave it if they could,” the group writes, “but the cycle of poverty entraps them in a system that relies on their exploitation.”

Yet other radical Democrats—including the Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez-affiliated Democratic Socialists of America—have begun demanding Americans decriminalize so-called “sex work,” in stark contrast to President Trump’s effort to halt sex trafficking.

“Virtual Slaves”

Trump, who established a new Center for Counter Human Trafficking in 2020, signed two major bills into law enhancing penalties for those who enable or engage in sex trafficking. And on the 2024 campaign trail, he’s called for the death penalty for human traffickers exploiting Kamala Harris’ open border.

Harris herself once believed that predators use the lure “of a better life and job” to trick poor migrants who can’t speak English to “work in the sex trade.” From her 2009 book:

These victims are not ‘voluntary sex workers’ or ‘erotic service providers,’ as the people who recruit, transport, and even trade them call them. They are virtual slaves. There may be in excess of 50,000 people who are brough into this country against their will every year, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

An estimated 1.1 million people live in sex slavery in the United States, according to a June 2023 study. Globally, this illicit industry has generated $150 billion in criminal profits.

Yet as “border czar” Harris has done everything possible to increase the illegal pipeline of sex slaves from Latin America into our country. In 2022, 150,000 unaccompanied minors crossed the border illegally. It’s estimated that 60 percent of them are caught each year by Mexican drug cartels and exploited through drug trafficking or child pornography.

How has Harris handled that? Instead of cracking down, Biden-Harris declared January “National Human Trafficking Prevention Month,” preventing absolutely no people from being trafficked. In 2023 alone, the Biden-Harris regime released 113,000 unaccompanied minors who’d crossed the border illegally to a sponsor—only to lose track of 85,000 of these kids. No one knows where, or with whom, they ended up, but one fears the worst. Those who ended up in safe homes are believed to cost our school systems $4.6 billion each year.

At IllegalAlienCrimes.com, we have identified more than 50,000 such crimes since Harris took office in 2021—and gruesome count is only rising.

Stop the carnage. End the madness. Vote out the pro-death, pro-violence radicals who are responsible for this mess.

(READ MORE: Have Harris or Walz Ever Worked a Non-Government Job?)