Sex Trafficking in Hawai'i: Exploring Online Sex Buyers
Researchers from the Office of Sex Trafficking Intervention Research (STIR) at Arizona State
University are conducting a multi-part study about sex trafficking in Hawaiʻi. The study entitled
Sex Trafficking in Hawaiʻi will encompass exploring online sex buyers and the response to sex
buying demand in Hawaiʻi, discovering the experiences of sex trafficking victims regarding
recruitment, retention, exiting, and determining the Hawaiʻi community’s developing capacity to
respond to sex trafficking victims of all ages and genders.
Funding for this project is from the Kaimas Foundation, a private family foundation with strong
interest in the well-being of vulnerable people including children and women in Hawaiʻi
(kaimasfoundation.org) and in partnership with ASU STIR and the Hawaiʻi State Commission on
the Status of Women