Sex work laws by nation (Ajax)

There are a wide variety of forms of sex work including prostitution, exotic dancing, and creation of live or recorded media. The nations of the world have many approaches when considering the legality of each of the various aspects of the sex industry. These legal approaches can be generally grouped into categories: prohibitionism, neo-abolitionism, abolitionism, decriminalization, and legalization. Some states may have a variety of laws within them based on subnational polities, which on the national level would mean multiple types of legality are in place.

Types of legality

Prohibitionism

This aspect of the industry is illegal in full.

Neo-abolitionism

This aspect of the industry is legal to offer by the primary party, but illegal to either purchase as a second party or to be included a third party.

Abolitionism

This aspect of the industry is legal, but organized activities such as brothels and pimping are illegal; this aspect of the industry is not regulated.

Decriminalization

There are no criminal penalties for this aspect of the industry.

Legalization

This aspect of the industry is legal and regulated.

Prostitution

Country	Prohibitionism	Neo-abolitionism	Abolitionism	Decriminalization	Legalization
Dzhuvenestan
	Prostitution is illegal in Dzhuvenestan, though it is frequently practiced and laws are poorly-enforced.
Fahran
Gelonia
Latium
Mniohuta
	Prostitution is generally considered a secondary job rather than primary work, though there is no social stigma against it being a primary line of work. That said, the industry is heavily regulated to prevent the spread of STDs and allow workers to avoid unwanted pregnancies.
Charnea
	Prostitution in Charnea is part of Tenerian, Tebu and Deshrian tradition rooted in sacred prostitution. Tameli Talyat, Ninvite religious prostitutes, hold a high status in society as a pseudo-clerical order with many associations and organizations which preserve traditions of this proffesion and preform self-regulation, screening of candidates, clients and measures to prevent disease. Consequently, prostitution has been legal in the State of the Ninva since its inception. Male sex workers have been subject to long standing taboos in Ninvite society, but are increasingly accepted and have always been fully protected under the law.
Ostrozava
	Many Ostrozavan subprimes differ in the specifics of their regulation, but most are under common consensus of non-criminality per several rulings by the Supreme Court. Much of southern and central Ostrozava has legalized, albeit highly regulated prostiution, with professionals requiring additional identification and a larger bureaucratic signature. Others, such as the leftmost Subprimes of Vamo, Stratosko, Baderia, and Rheigen, have effectively decriminalized punishment for casual trading of sex acts while criminalizing its organization, without integrating it into local government. Many Subprimes have requirements for sex workers to unionize.
Ottonia
	Prostitution is, at a federal level, decriminalized, with the issue largely left to the Constitutent Republics to legislate in greater detail. This treatment ranges from the relatively hands-off approach of Bluwaald, which largely only imposes basic health-and-safety regulations beyond federal minimums, to the strongly-regulated cooperative brothel system of the DAR, to the system seen in the new Southern Republic of Onneria where prostitution is essentially regulated into non-viability as a formal profession.
Sante Reze
	Sante Reze has varying laws between provinces. The Nine Cousins has regulated, legal prostitution attached to its overall hospitality industry. In Oxidentali Sante Reze, there are no penalties involved with engaging in the practice but there are also no legal specifications that come with it; it is not considered as distinct from whatever hospitality context it is engaged within.
Seonko
Sydalon
Talahara
	Prostitution is illegal in Talahara as the exchange of sexual acts for remuneration is considered economically coercive and thus nonconsensual. While it is not expressly illegal for an individual to offer services, they may be cautioned against doing so and offered support and social services. Any individual caught purchasing sexual services may be charged with sexual assault.
Tyreseia
	Prostitution has been legal in Tyreseia since the 1970s. All sex work is regulated under under the euphemistically-named Aphrodite League, which acts as a self-regulatory union body of all sex workers. The union exists to avoid pimping (which is strictly illegal), and to ensure standards of quality and consent. Identification, and a negative sexually-transmitted infection test, must be furnished before hiring a sex worker. Sex workers reside in communal housing, which is maintained by the union through their work, and exists to ensure security for the sex workers. Sex workers are regularly tested for STIs, and are forbidden from sex work if they contract one. Instead, the League provides medical costs and alternative employment. Additionally, following a syphilis outbreak in 1995, the League may invoke its right to perform contact tracing on behalf of the Tyreseian People's Commissariat of Health.
Vardana
Yisrael
Zacapican

Exotic dancing

Country	Prohibitionism	Neo-abolitionism	Abolitionism	Decriminalization	Legalization
Dzhuvenestan
Fahran
Gelonia
Latium
	Exotic dancing can be split into distinct varieties, the most notable of which in Latium are nude and otherwise. Nude dancing is prohibited in full, but other forms of exotic dance or burlesque are legal and have regulatory laws associated with them.
Mniohuta
	Exotic dancing is very much a foreign idea, and one that has only been particularly harped on by the tourism industry in certain cases. Most forms of "exotic dancing" come from other countries and are near impossible to find outside of tourist traps in red light districts in major cities. While a more Mniohuti form of "exotic dancing" does exist, it comes from a marriage ritual and is generally considered socially taboo to perform outside of that context.
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Ostrozava
	'Exotic dancing' holds a very narrow legal definition in Ostrozava as most forms of burlesque dancing are classified under prostitution. As such, non-'sexual' burlesque dancing is neither criminalized nor regulated, often being paid little attention to by regulatory bodies.
Ottonia
	While various types of dance considered to be "exotic dance" are not explicitly handled by legislation, and the venues for such performances are decriminalized at a federal level, many jurisdictions at the Republic, Prefectural, and Municipal levels often either explicitly outlaw the venues used for exotic dancing or strictly limit them via zoning laws and local ordinances.
Sante Reze
	All forms of exotic dance are legal in Sante Reze at the national level, and regulations revolve around age of performers and health status regarding transmissible disease. There are few if any regulations regarding what actions may be included in a performance.
Seonko
Sydalon
Talahara
	Exotic dancing in Talahara has no criminal sanction but sexual acts or contact between performers and viewers is prohibited. Exotic dancing venues are also rare due to zoning discrimination as anti-gender commodification groups have been largely successful in preventing the erection of venues that regularly host exotic dancing from being built on common land through advocacy in Local Councils.
Tyreseia
	All forms of exotic dance are legal in Tyreseia, provided the dancers are registered members of the Aphrodite League. Dancers are not allowed to perform sexual acts for money unless they request an occupational reassignment, pass background and health checks, and receive additional League and government licensure. All forms of exotic dance, whether burlesque or otherwise, are strictly limited to adult-only consumption and identification is required at all such establishments.
Vardana
Yisrael
Zacapican

Pornography

Country	Prohibitionism	Neo-abolitionism	Abolitionism	Decriminalization	Legalization
Mniohuta
	Like most other industries pornography is heavily regulated, with restrictions for physical purchasing of it limited to those over the age of 16. Actors in pornography must be registered per laws adopted by the People's Conclave in 1998 to fight human trafficking and are typically part of a broader co-op such as the Explicit Actors Co-Op (the largest in the country) and are usually registered with one of the trade unions associated with the industry.
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Ottonia
	At a federal level, pornography at a professional level is regulated, with limitations on availability for purchase based on age as well as health and safety regulations for its production. Notably sexually-explicit materials depicting real persons are also legislated differently from artistic (i.e., drawn, painted, written) materials. "Amateur" pornography is not criminalized for production or distribution, but cannot be sold or released without the explicit, written consent of the persons depicted within.
Sante Reze
	Owning, producing, selling, and obtaining pornographic media is legal and regulated in all of its forms, physical and digital. Regulations in the industry revolve around the age of "on-stage" participants and health status regarding transmissible disease.
Seonko
Talahara
	Paid pornography, as with prostitution, is illegal in Talahara as a form of coerced sexual activity. Independently produced and freely distributed pornographic materials are not subject to any legal sanction, but illegal or non-consensual distribution of such materials carries a criminal penalty.
Tyreseia
	Pornography is legal and regulated in Tyreseia. Performers, like all sex workers, must be registered members of the Aphrodite League, with "amateur" content strictly disallowed for most Tyreseian websites or physical distribution. Additionally, vendors must be able to provably ascertain that all performers and the customer of a pornographic piece are above the age of 18, with some websites opting for requiring images of government identification from all parties involved. Like with all sex workers, STI testing is frequent; if a performer contracts a disease, the League will pay medical compensation and reassign them to an alternative line of work, sometimes performing contact tracing to prevent the further spread of the disease. Theaters that display pornographic films are not allowed to display non-pornographic films and vice versa; pornographic theaters must also clearly mark themselves as such to prevent any potential confusion. Pornography itself has a hazy definition under Tyreseian law, with definition usually falling to the Aphrodite League to self-police.
Yisrael
Zacapican