Title: Prostitution law - Wikipedia
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Prostitution law
Contents
Overview
Legal themes
General
Economic and health issues
Human trafficking
Legislation models
Prohibitionism
Neo-abolitionism
Abolitionism
Legalization
Decriminalization
Demographic impact
Gender
Developed vs. developing countries
Views of prohibitionists
Regulated prostitution
Mandatory health checks
Labour laws
Status of unregulated sex work
Worldwide laws
Prohibitionism
Neo-abolitionism
Legality varies with local laws
Abolitionism
Legalization
Decriminalization
Enforcement
See also
References
Further reading
External links

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Legality of prostitution
Decriminalization – no criminal penalties for prostitution
Legalization – prostitution legal and regulated
Abolitionism – prostitution is legal, but organized activities such as brothels and pimping are illegal; prostitution is not regulated
Neo-abolitionism – illegal to buy sex and for 3rd party involvement, legal to sell sex
Prohibitionism – prostitution illegal
Legality varies with local laws
Sex and the law

Social issues
Age of consent
Antisexualism
Bodily integrity
Censorship
Circumcision
Deviant sexual intercourse
Ethics
Freedom of speech
Homophobia
Intersex rights
LGBT rights
Miscegenation (interracial relations)
Marriageable age
Norms
Objectification
Pornography
Public morality
Red-light district
Reproductive rights
Right to sexuality
Same-sex marriage
Sex industry
Sex workers' rights
Sexual consent in law
Sexual and reproductive health and rights
Survival sex
Specific offences
(Varies by jurisdiction)
Adultery
Bestiality
Buggery
Child grooming
Child pornography
Child prostitution
Criminal transmission of HIV
Cybersex trafficking
Female genital mutilation
Fornication
Incest
Pimping
Prostitution
forced
procuring
Public indecency
Rape
statutory
marital
Seduction
Sex trafficking
Sexting
Sexual abuse
child
Sexual assault
Sexual harassment
Slavery
Sodomy
UK Section 63 (2008)
Violence
Trafficking
Voyeurism
Sex offender registration
Sex offender registry
Sex offender registries in the United States
Portals
Human sexuality portal
Law portal
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Prostitution law varies widely from country to country, and between jurisdictions within a country. At one extreme, prostitution or sex work is legal in some places and regarded as a profession, while at the other extreme, it is a crime punishable by death in some other places. In many jurisdictions, prostitution – the commercial exchange of sex for money, goods, service, or some other benefit agreed upon by the transacting parties – is illegal, while in others it is legal, but surrounding activities, such as soliciting in a public place, operating a brothel, and pimping, may be illegal. In many jurisdictions where prostitution is legal, it is regulated; in others it is unregulated. Where the exchange of sex for money is criminalized, it may be the sex worker (most commonly), the client, or both, who are subject to prosecution. Prostitution has been condemned as a single form of human rights abuse, and an attack on the dignity and worth of human beings. Other schools of thought argue that sex work is a legitimate occupation, whereby a person trades or exchanges sexual acts for money and/or goods. Some believe that women in developing countries are especially vulnerable to sexual exploitation and human trafficking, while others distinguish this practice from the global sex industry, in which "sex work is done by consenting adults, where the act of selling or buying sexual services is not a violation of human rights."