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i <br /> i <br /> Native aiimade up 64 <br /> percent cif the sex trafficking � <br /> victims identified in this <br /> In this study we found that sex trafficking study. <br /> victims identified as female, male, transgender, <br /> and non-conforming. Seventy-five percent of Native Hawaiians made up b4 percent of <br /> the sex trafficking victims identified as female. the sex trafficking victims identified in this <br /> The life experiences of the female and male sex study. This is the second body of peer- <br /> trafficking victims were found to be different. reviewed empirical research to show <br /> Male victims were more likely to be in a gang disproportionate representation of Native <br /> and been expelled from school. More than a Hawaiians among sex trafficking victims in <br /> quarter of the male sex trafficking victims Hawaii. The commercial sex industry in <br /> reported being sex trafficked by a girlfriend. Hawaii is dependent on a convenient, low <br /> Female sex trafficking victims were more likely cost supply of nubile human beings for <br /> to report childhood and adolescent sexual and high volumes of sexual activity with I <br /> emotional abuse. <br /> strangers. The overutilization of Native <br /> Hawaiians to meet sex buyer demand may <br /> The majority of sex trafficking victims in this be directly linked to structural economic <br /> study were first trafficked as adults, but coercion and vulnerabilities connected to <br /> twenty-three percent reported that they were land dispossession, exposure to sexual <br /> children when they were first sex trafficked. violence, hypersexualization, incarceration, <br /> While an average age for first sex trafficking cultural dislocation, intergenerational <br /> victimization has not been established in the trauma, mental and emotional distress, <br /> U.S., the age range in this study, from four to 55 racism, poverty, and going inequities. <br /> years old is broad and emphasizes that sex <br /> trafficking victimization can occur at nearly any The reasons identified by the sex <br /> time during the lifespan. This finding trafficking victims for being sex trafficked <br /> demonstrates the need for universal awareness, varied but the top reason was for drugs, <br /> prevention, and screenings for sex trafficking in followed by a place to stay and money. <br /> Hawaii. <br /> 1 Office of Hawaiian Affairs,Haumea:Transforming the Health of Native Hawaiian Women and Empowering Wahine Well-Being,2018 <br /> SEX TRAFFICKING IN HAWAII I EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 10 <br />