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Why Are Decades-Old Accusations Of Sexual Assault Coming Out Now?

Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, Bill Cosby, many others — it is easy to lose count of the men in Hollywood being accused of sexual harassment or sexual assault. And that’s just Hollywood.

Anecdotes from all sectors have been coming out in the last month, with wany of these accusations go back years or decades.

So why are they coming out now? We've got Sherry Hamby on the line. She's the founding editor of the journal Psychology of Violence, which is published by the American Psychological Association.

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Jorge Valencia was a senior field correspondent at KJZZ from 2016 to 2019.