Sex Shop in Envigado, Colombia

Selling and buying sex between adults are not crimes in Colombia. The National Police and Coexistence Code (Law 1801 of 2016) states that prostitution as such does not trigger corrective measures, sets conditions for the establishments where it takes place (a sanitary certificate, condoms, no minors) and fines sex workers, clients and operators who break them, including working outside the zones and hours a municipality has set. The Penal Code punishes inducing another person into prostitution for profit or to satisfy the desires of another with 10 to 22 years. In T-629 of 2010 the Constitutional Court recognised an employment relationship between a sex worker and the bar where she worked, and in T-594 of 2016 it urged the Ministry of Labour to propose regulation. Bill 186 of 2023, to regulate sex work as employment, passed a first Senate debate in 2024 but appears to have lapsed. Source: Prostitution Laws (prostitutionlaws.org), https://prostitutionlaws.org/countries/colombia/, reviewed 2026-11-04, CC BY 4.0.