Gentlemens Club in Western Australia, Australia

Selling and buying sex are not offences in themselves, but s 190 of the Criminal Code makes it a crime to keep or manage premises for the purposes of prostitution, to permit premises to be so used, to let premises knowing of such use, or to live wholly or partly on the earnings of prostitution (up to 3 years). The Prostitution Act 2000 penalises seeking a sex worker or a client in or within view or hearing of a public place (ss 5-6), inducing a person to act as a sex worker (s 7), sex without a prophylactic (s 8), publishing statements likely to induce a person to work as a sex worker or in a prostitution business (s 9, up to $50,000) and sponsorships that promote a sex worker or prostitution business (s 10). Under s 14, acting as a sex worker is itself an offence for a child, a person declared a drug trafficker or a person with certain convictions. The consolidated Prostitution Act current in November 2026 dates from 5 April 2023. Source: Prostitution Laws (prostitutionlaws.org), https://prostitutionlaws.org/countries/australia/, reviewed 2026-11-04, CC BY 4.0.