In Finland adults may sell and buy sex in private. The Public Order Act prohibits buying sexual services and offering them for payment in a public place, sanctioned with a petty fine. Since 2006 it has been an offence to buy sex from a person who is the victim of procuring or trafficking, including where the buyer had reason to suspect it. Procuring (paritus) for financial gain, which includes arranging a room for paid sex and marketing someone's services by passing on contact details, carries up to three years, and aggravated procuring up to six. Chapter 20 of the Criminal Code was renumbered by the sexual offences reform in force on 1 January 2023. Source: Prostitution Laws (prostitutionlaws.org), https://prostitutionlaws.org/countries/finland/, reviewed 2026-11-03, CC BY 4.0.