New Hampshire Targets Sexual Exploitation and Human Trafficking Inside Massage Parlors

The state had 118 reported trafficking cases in the state in 2024, according to the New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence. Of those, 105 involved sex trafficking and 13 were related to labor trafficking.

In 2023, 95 total cases were reported, with 87 tied to sex trafficking.

Meg Chant, the program director for the Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual violence, explained that one of the biggest obstacles to identifying trafficking is the public’s misunderstanding of what the trafficking of women, men and children actually looks like.
“A lot of people think, ‘I haven’t been kidnapped, I haven’t been chained up, so this isn’t trafficking.’ But it’s far more quotidian than people realize,” Chant said.

Chant explained that human trafficking is the “exploitation of one person by another for commercial gain using force, fraud or coercion.”

“If someone is unable to leave a situation where they are — where there are services, whether that’s labor or sex, being used for commercial benefit, then that’s trafficking,” said Chant.

Concord Monitor
July 11, 2025

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