Prostitution is legal in Finland, but selling and purchasing sex in public is illegal, as well as purchasing or pimping a trafficked victim.
Prostitution is completely legal in Costa Rica. In fact, it’s a common profession. However, pimping is illegal, prostitution rings are illegal.
Prostitution has been legal in New Zealand since 2003. There are even licensed brothels operating under public health and employment laws
Prostitution is completely legal in Austria. Prostitutes are required to register, undergo periodic health examinations.
Except for male prostitution, everything else is legal. Pimping and owning a brothel is also legal.
In Denmark, prostitution was decriminalized in 1999, partly because authorities wanted to keep watch over the industry.
Canada has no law against the exchange of sex for money; it’s pimping or owning a brothel that is the problem. It is legal to be a sex worker, but illegal to purchase sexual services.
There are an estimated 400,000 prostitutes working in Germany. Prostitution brings in about six billion Euros each year.
In Greece as long as you’re over the age of 21, registered and a medical card carrier whose card is updated every two weeks, one can do anything that doesn’t involve sex trafficking.
It is legal to work in the sex industry in Colombia, though pimping isn't.