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Prostitution in Guatemala
Prostitution in Guatemala is legal but procuring (pimping) is prohibited. There is an offence of "aggravated procuring" where a minor is involved. Keeping a brothel is not prohibited.
Prostitution is widespread in Guatemala; UNAIDS estimate there to be 26,000 prostitutes in the country. Guatemala City alone has 9 red-light districts, including La Linea, El Trebol and Parque Concordia. Statistics from the Vigilancia Centinela de las Infecciones de Transmisión Sexual (VICITS) sexual health clinics from 2007 to 2011 showed 10.8% of the sex workers worked on the streets, the rest working indoors at strip clubs, brothels based at residential homes, bars etc.
Child sex tourism is a problem in the country especially in areas such as Antigua and Guatemala City.
Human trafficking is also a significant and growing problem in the country, particularly the exploitation of children in prostitution. Many women and children are brought into the country from El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Honduras by organized rings that force them into prostitution.
In colonial Guatemala, and into the 20th century, prostitution was thought of as necessary to protect the virtues of the "ladies" of Guatemala. Brothels and street prostitution were tolerated and commonplace. Guatemalan law held that prostitutes could not be raped and that violence was an occupational hazard.
Any woman, whether a prostitute or not, convicted of "bad conduct" could be incarcerated in a brothel for up to 3 years. Until outlawed in 1906, individual women and their sentences could be brought and sold between brothel madams.
In Guatemala City there is a red-light district by the "La Linea" railway track. About 250 prostitutes work there in shacks. The women rent the shacks directly from the owners and work for themselves, not pimps. They do have to pay protection money to local gangs. Generally the local police ignore the area.
The 'Oblate Sisters of the Most Holy Redeemer' provide outreach services to the women and run a drop-in center. The MuJER also provide outreach services to the women in La Linea and the other red-light districts of Guatemala City.
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Prostitution in Guatemala
Prostitution in Guatemala is legal but procuring (pimping) is prohibited. There is an offence of "aggravated procuring" where a minor is involved. Keeping a brothel is not prohibited.
Prostitution is widespread in Guatemala; UNAIDS estimate there to be 26,000 prostitutes in the country. Guatemala City alone has 9 red-light districts, including La Linea, El Trebol and Parque Concordia. Statistics from the Vigilancia Centinela de las Infecciones de Transmisión Sexual (VICITS) sexual health clinics from 2007 to 2011 showed 10.8% of the sex workers worked on the streets, the rest working indoors at strip clubs, brothels based at residential homes, bars etc.
Child sex tourism is a problem in the country especially in areas such as Antigua and Guatemala City.
Human trafficking is also a significant and growing problem in the country, particularly the exploitation of children in prostitution. Many women and children are brought into the country from El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Honduras by organized rings that force them into prostitution.
In colonial Guatemala, and into the 20th century, prostitution was thought of as necessary to protect the virtues of the "ladies" of Guatemala. Brothels and street prostitution were tolerated and commonplace. Guatemalan law held that prostitutes could not be raped and that violence was an occupational hazard.
Any woman, whether a prostitute or not, convicted of "bad conduct" could be incarcerated in a brothel for up to 3 years. Until outlawed in 1906, individual women and their sentences could be brought and sold between brothel madams.
In Guatemala City there is a red-light district by the "La Linea" railway track. About 250 prostitutes work there in shacks. The women rent the shacks directly from the owners and work for themselves, not pimps. They do have to pay protection money to local gangs. Generally the local police ignore the area.
The 'Oblate Sisters of the Most Holy Redeemer' provide outreach services to the women and run a drop-in center. The MuJER also provide outreach services to the women in La Linea and the other red-light districts of Guatemala City.
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